CHAPTER 271
An Act creating a Commission to study and report upon matters relating
to the State Highway Department and to appropriate certain funds.

[S 172]
Approved March 15, 1962

Whereas, the general economy of the Commonwealth will be ad-
versely affected unless highway construction and improvement, both in
rural and urban areas, keep abreast of demonstrated need; and

Whereas, it is questionable whether the State Highway Department
will be able to meet this need under the present method of allocations of
funds due to the failure of revenues available for highway expenditure to
keep pace with the constantly increasing highway demands and costs of
construction; now, therefore,

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. There is hereby created a Commission to be known and designated
as the Virginia Highway Study Commission, which shall be composed of
one member from each of the eight highway construction districts and
two members from the State at large, all to be appointed by the Governor,
who shall designate the Chairman.

The Commission shall study and make recommendations on the fol-
lowing matters:

(1) The needs of the Primary, Secondary and Urban Systems of
Highways and the methods of allocating revenues to these systems;

(2) The diversion of highway revenues from highway construction
and maintenance to other highway-related activities;

(3) The impact of the Interstate System of Highways on the State
matching funds for the other systems;

(4) The review of right of way acquisition policies of the State
Highway Department;

(5) Such other matters relating to the Highway Commission, the
Highway Department, and the Highway Systems as the Study Commis-
sion deems appropriate in relation to the foregoing.

In pursuing its studies, the Study Commission shall reexamine and
reappraise those certain matters relating to the State Highway Depart-
ment which were studied by the Virginia Advisory Legislative Council in
1957 and which also have been studied by consultants for the State High-
way Department.

The members of the Commission shall receive no compensation for
their services but shall be paid their necessary expenses, for which, and
for such secretarial and other assistance as the Study Commission may
require, including consultants, there is hereby appropriated from High-
way revenues a sum sufficient not to exceed twenty-five thousand dollars.

All agencies of the State shall assist the Commission in its study,
upon request. The Commission shall complete its study and submit its
recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly, along with
drafts of legislation to effectuate the same, not later than October one,
nineteen hundred sixty-three.