Chap. 46.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Chapter 69 of the Acts of Assembly
of 1932, approved February 27, 1932, as amended, conferring certain powers
on boards of supervisors of certain counties, and giving publicity to ordinances
proposed to be enacted under the authority of this act, so as to confer like
powers on boards of supervisors of certain other counties. [H B 77]

Approved February 22, 1946

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That chapter sixty-nine of the Acts of Assembly of nineteen
hundred thirty-two, approved February twenty-seven, nineteen hundred
thirty-two, as amended, be amended and re-enacted, as follows:

Section 1. The boards of supervisors of counties adjoining and
abutting any city, within or without this State, having a population of
one hundred and twenty-five thousand or more, as shown by the last
preceding United States census, and the boards of supervisors of counties
adjoining any county which adjoins and abuts any such city and has a
density of population of five hundred or more to the square mile, and
the boards of supervisors of counties having a density of population of
four hundred and seventy-five or more to the square mile of highland, all
as shown by the last preceding United States census, and the boards of
supervisors of counties having within their boundaries any United States
Marine Corps Base, are hereby vested with the same powers and autho-
rity as are now vested or which may hereafter be vested in the councils
of cities and towns by virtue of the Constitution of the State of Virginia
or the acts of the General Assembly passed or which may hereafter be
passed, in pursuance thereof; provided, however, that with the exception
of such ordinances as are expressly authorized under section fifty-two
and sixty-two of the Motor Vehicle Code of Virginia, no ordinance shall
be enacted under authority of this act regulating the equipment, opera-
tion, lighting, or speed of motor propelled vehicles operated on the pub-
lic highways of such county, unless the same be uniform with general
laws of this state regulating such equipment, operation, lighting or speed
and with the regulations of the State Highway Commission adopted
pursuant to such general laws, and provided further that nothing in this
act shall be construed to give such boards of supervisors any power to
control or exercise supervision over signs, signals, markings and traffic
lights on any roads constructed and maintained by the State Highway De-
partment, or to give the boards of supervisors power to levy license
taxes.

Provided, that no law shall be enacted by the boards of supervisors
under authority of this act until after descriptive notice of intention to
propose the same for passage shall have been published once a week for
two (2) successive weeks in some newspaper having a general circula-
tion in the county of said board.