Chap. 136.—An ACT to provide the manner in which local funds shall be contrib-
uted to match Federal Highway funds for the construction or improvement of
Federal or State Highways within urban places when such matching is re-
quired, and how such highways shall be marked and signed. [S B 85}

Approved March 9, 1946

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That in cases where an Act of Congress requires that Federal
Aid Highway Funds made available for the construction or improvement
of Federal or State highways within urban places be matched by the local
funds, the State Highway Commission is authorized and empowered to
contribute one-half of such local funds, provided the urban place con-
tributes the other one-half.

On any urban highway upon which the State Highway Commis-
sion has expended funds in the above manner, the location, form and
character of informational, regulatory, and warning signs, curb and
pavement or other markings, and traffic signals installed or placed by
any public authority shall be subject to the approval of the State High-
way Commission. Under the provisions of this act, the term “urban
place” is defined as an incorporated city or town having a population of
thirty-five hundred or more according to the last preceding Federal cen-
sus, and in all towns situated within one mile of the corporate limits of a
city of the first class and having a population in excess of thirty-five hun-
dred (3,500) inhabitants according to the census of nineteen hundred
thirty. The term “construction or improvement” means the supervision,
inspection, actual building, and all expenses incidental to the construc-
tion or reconstruction of a highway, including locating, surveying, de-
sign, and mapping, costs of right of way, signs, signals and markings,
and elimination of hazards of railroad-grade crossings.