CHAPTER 329

AN ACT to amend the Code of 1950 by adding a section numbered
35-62.1 authorizing the governing bodies of certain counties to
impose a license tax upon certain trailers and, so as to enforce
the same, to require certain reports and provide penalties for
violation.
[S 57]
Approved April 5, 1950

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of 1950 be amended by adding a section numbered
35-62.1, as follows:

§ 35-62.1. The governing body of any county adjoining a county
having a population of more than one thousand per square mile
may impose a tax of not exceeding one hundred dollars a year
which may be paid quarterly if the ordinance so provides on house
trailers kept on property other than that owned by the person
residing in such trailer and may also provide that it shall be unlaw-
ful for any person to keep any trailer, if occupied by himself or
others, on any property not a trailer camp or owned by him for more
than forty-eight hours unless he shall have first registered with the
Office of the county designated in the ordinance; upon such regis-
tration any such trailer may stay within the county not exceeding
thirty days without payment of the tax. Prior to the expiration
of such thirty day period license shall be obtained from the
treasurer, commissioner of the revenue or other officer of the county
designated in the ordinance a license so to do, which license shall
not exceed one hundred dollars per trailer per year which may be
paid quarterly if the ordinance so provides. Payment of such
license shall be evidenced by a sticker affixed to the trailer so
licensed. The governing body may further require operators of
trailer camps to report to the county the license number of trailers
so licensed and the motor vehicle license number of unlicensed
trailers admitted by them to their trailer camps. Possession and
exhibition of licenses required hereunder may be compelled by any
such ordinance adopted hereunder. The governing body may pro-
vide that failure to comply with any ordinance so adopted shall
constitute a misdemeanor and be punished as provided by law.

2. This act shall become effective on and after January one, nine-
teen hundred fifty-one.