Chap. 235.—An ACT to amend and reenact Section 7, as amended, of Chapter
403, Acts of the General Assembly of 1922, approved March 24, 1922, relating
to the creation of the State Highway Commission and the office of State
Highway Commissioner, and to the powers, functions and duties thereof,
and providing for certain construction districts and for the allocation of high-
bal funds, the section relating to construction districts and aloe o
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Approved March 13, 1948

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section seven, as amended, of chapter four hundred
and three of the Acts of the General Assembly of nineteen hundred
and twenty-two, approved March twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred
and twenty-two, be amended and reenacted as follows:
Section 7. Construction districts; allocation of funds.—The
Commission shall divide the State into not less than eight con-
struction districts. Work in each of the construction districts shall
be started as simultaneously as practicable, and continued in each
district, except as herein provided. The State Highway Commission
shall annually, and as nearly as possible, make an equitable appor-
tionment among the various construction districts, of the construc-
tion funds to become available during the succeeding fiscal vear;
provided, however, that the Commission shall each year, during the
present war apply out of the funds from the motor fuel tax, Federal
or other construction funds, two million dollars, to such construc-
tion project in the several construction districts as the Commission
may deem best for the interest of the State; provided, further, that
the Commission shall, as soon after the end of the present war as
practicable, reimburse, from regular construction funds, those dis-
tricts which during the period of the present war, failed to receive
their pro-rata share of the two million dollar fund.

The Commission shall each year, apply out of the funds from the
motor fuel tax, Federal or other construction funds, two million
dollars, to construction projects in the several construction districts
as the Commission may deem best for the interests of the State,
such amount to be applied in the several construction districts on
the basis of the uncompleted mileage in the primary system of the
State highways in the respective districts.

The funds for each year shall, as far as possible. be allotted
prior to the commencement of the fiscal year, and public announce-
ment made of such allotment, but the Commission shall not approve
such allotment until after public hearing, at which political subdivi-
sions of the State and interested citizens may be heard. and, further,
the Commission shall give preference to projects on which the
right-of-way is donated.

In any case where any allotment of funds is made under this act
to any county all or a part of which subsequently is incorporated as
or into a city or town such allocation shall not be impaired thereby
and the funds so allocated shall be expended as if such county or
any part thereof had never become an incorporated city, but such
city shall not be eligible to receive funds as a city during the same
year it receives the funds allocated as a county or as any part of
a county.