CHAPTER 554

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 88-82 of the Code of Virginia, relating to
construction districts and allocation of funds thereto. 5
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Approved March 29, 1958

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
be That § 33-82 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
ollows:

§ 83-32. The present division of the State into not less than eight
construction districts shall continue in effect. Work shall be continued in
each district, except as herein provided. The State Highway Commission
shall annually make, as nearly as possible, an equitable apportionment
among the various construction districts, of the construction funds to
become available during the succeeding fiscal year.*

The Commission shall each year apply out of the funds from the
motor fuel tax or Federal or other constructiou funds the sum of two
million dollars to such construction projects in the several construction
districts as the Commission may deem best for the interests of the State. *

The Commission shall give preference to projects on which the right
of way is donated. ;

The funds for each year shall, as far as possible, be allotted prior to
the commencement of the fiscal year and public announcement made of
such allotment, but the Commission shall not approve such allotment until
after public hearing, at which political subdivisions of the State and inter-
ested citizens may be heard. . .

In any case where any allotment of funds is made under this section
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.