Chap. 214.—An ACT to amend and reenact section 9 of Chapter 415 of the Acts
of 1932 as amended and reenacted by Chapter 135 of the Acts of 1946 entitled
“An act to relieve counties of Virginia of, and to assist certain cities and
towns in, the maintenance and improvement, including construction and re-
construction, of certain roads, causeways, streets, baiiges, landings and-
wharves; to establish a secondary system of State highways; for such purpose
to prescribe the rights, powers, duties, and authority of the local road
authorities, the State Department of Highways, the State Highway Com-
mission, and the State Highway Commissioner; to prohibit certain local
levies; to appropriate and allocate funds for the purpose of this act; to
provide for elections in counties for withdrawal from the provisions of this
act; and to repeal acts and parts of acts in conflict, herewith, approved March
31, 1932, as heretofore amended,” and to amend and reenact section 9 of said
Act, approved March 9, 1946, so as to increase the amount of money, to provide
the manner and terms of payment and how the money shall be expended. [S 62]

Approved March 13, 1948

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section nine of chapter four hundred fifteen of the
Acts of nineteen hundred thirty-two, as amended and reenacted
by chapter one hundred thirty-five of the Acts of nineteen hundred
forty-six, entitled “An act to relieve counties of Virginia of, and to
assist certain cities and towns in, the maintenance and improve-
ment, including construction and reconstruction, of certain roads,
causeways, streets, bridges, landings and wharves; to establish a
secondary system of State highways; for such purpose to prescribe
the rights, powers, duties, and authority of the local road authori-
ties, the State Department of Highways, the State Highway Com-
mission, and the State Highway Commissioner ; to prohibit certain
local levies; to appropriate and allocate funds for the purpose of
this act; to provide for elections in counties for withdrawal from the
provisions of this act; and to repeal acts and parts of acts in con-
flict herewith, approved March thirty-first, nineteen hundred thirty-
two, as heretofore amended,” and to amend and reenact section nine
of said act, approved March ninth, nineteen hundred forty-six, so
as to increase the amount of money, to provide the manner and
terms of payment, and how the money shall be expended, so that
section nine of said act as heretofore amended be amended and
reenacted to read as follows:

Section 9. The State Highway Commissioner, subject to the
approval of the State Highway Commission shall select such streets
and roads, or portions thereof, in incorporated towns and cities
having more than thirty-five hundred (3,500) inhabitants according
to the last preceding United States census, 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 hundred (3,500)
inhabitants according to the census of nineteen hundred and thirty,
and in all cities operating under a charter designating them as cities
notwithstanding the number of inhabitants, and in all towns having
a population in excess of thirty-five hundred (3,500) inhabitants
according to the last preceding United States census through which
passes any primary road in the State highway system directly con-
necting and over which moves a substantial portion of the traffic
between two cities of the State each of which has a population in
excess of forty thousand (40,000) inhabitants according to the said
census as may, in his judgment be best for the handling of traffic
in such towns and cities, from or to any road in the State highway
system, and from time to time make such changes in the selection
thereof as may be reasonable and proper. If such streets and roads,
or portions thereof, in such towns or cities so selected by the State
Highway Commissioner shall, in the opinion of the State Highway
Commission, be maintained up to the standard of maintenance of
the State highway system adjoining such town or city, the State
Highway Commissioner shall cause to be paid to such town or
city, to be used by it in the maintenance and improvement, includ-
ing construction and reconstruction of streets, roads and bridges
within such town or city, subject to the approval of the State
Highway Commission, the sum of four thousand dollars each year
for each mile of such streets and roads or portions thereof, selected
by the State Highway Commissioner under the provisions of this
section within such town or city, one-third thereof to be paid
from State highway maintenance funds and the remaining two-
thirds thereof to be paid from State highway construction funds
allocated to the construction district in which such town or city
is located. Provided, however, if the amount available for highway
purposes in any fiscal year exceeds the amount available for high-
way purposes during the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen
hundred forty-eight, the four thousand dollars per mile as herein
provided shall be increased in the same ratio that said available
funds have increased in any fiscal year over the said fiscal year
ending June thirty, nineteen hundred forty-eight. Plans and speci-
fications for construction and reconstruction shall be approved by
the State Highway Commissioner.

The fund allotted by the Commission shall be paid in equal
sums in each quarter of the fiscal year, and no payment shall be
made without the approval of the State Highway Commission.

The town or city receiving this fund will be required to make
quarterly reports accounting for all expenditures, and certifying
that none of the money received has been expended for other than
the maintenance, improvement, construction or reconstruction of
the roads and streets in such town or city.