CHAPTER 78

An Act to amend and reenact § $8-50.2 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to annual allocations and payments by the State Highway Conimis-
sioner to certain towns for maintenance, improvement, construction
or reconstruction of streets not a part of the State highway primary

system.
[SB 111]
Approved February 21, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 33-50.2 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
follows:

§ 33-50.2. The State Highway Commissioner of Virginia is hereby
authorized and empowered, subject to the approval of the State Highway
Commission, upon request of the governing bodies of incorporated towns
of less than thirty-five hundred inhabitants, according to the last United
States census for which population figures are available, to allocate and
pay to such towns for maintenance, improvement, construction or recon-
struction of streets which are not a part or an extension of the State
highway primary system in the corporate limits of such towns the sum of
three hundred dollars per mile annually except as hereinafter provided,
if such streets and roads or portions thereof be maintained up to a standard
satisfactory to the State Highway Commission. Provided, however, that
the amount of three hundred dollars herein provided to be allocated
annually for maintenance, improvement, construction or reconstruction of
streets in such towns shall increase or decrease annually in the same ratio
that the total funds made available annually to the State highway secondary
system for all purposes shall increase or decrease relative to the fiscal year
ended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifty-six. However, no such
allocation of payment shall be made by the State Highway Commission
to any such incorporated town, unless the portion of the street for which
said allocation is made has an unrestricted right of way width of not
less than thirty feet and a hard surface width of not less than twelve feet;
and any such street hereafter established shall have a right of way width
of not less than fifty feet and a hard surface width of not less than twenty
feet. Allocations and payments made pursuant to this section to such in-
corporated towns shall be paid by the State Highway Commission to the
governing bodies of such towns from allocations available from secondary
funds. Plans and specifications for construction and reconstruction of such
streets shall be approved by the State Highway Commissioner.

The funds allocated 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.