CHAPTER 121

An Act to amend and reenact § $8-85.4 of the Code of Virginia, relating
fo payments to certain municipalities for maintenance of ik
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Approved March 9, 1966

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

r Nowe § 33-35.4 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
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§ 33-35.4. The State Highway Commission is authorized and em-
powered to allocate and pay to all cities and incorporated towns having a
population of thirty-five hundred or more according to the last United States
census for which population figures are available, and to all towns situated
within one mile of the corporate limits of a city of the first class and having
a population in excess of thirty-five hundred inhabitants according to the
census of nineteen hundred and thirty, for maintenance, improvement, con-
struction or reconstruction of streets which are not a part or an extension
of the State highway primary system in the corporate limits of such cities
and incorporated towns, the sum of *one thousand dollars per mile annually,
if such streets and roads or portions thereof be maintained up to a standard
satisfactory to the Commission. However, with the exception of streets or
portions thereof located within territory annexed or incorporated since July
one, nineteen hundred fifty, or hereafter, which streets a portion thereof
(1) have been paved and have constituted parts of the secondary system
of State highways prior to such annexation or incorporation, or (2) have
constituted parts of the secondary system of State highways prior to such
annexation or incorporation and are paved to a minimum width of sixteen
feet subsequent to such annexation or incorporation and with the further
exception of streets or portions thereof which have previously been main-
tained under the provisions of § 33-50.1 or § 33-50.4, or which have been
eligible for maintenance payments under § 33-50.2, no such allocation of
payments shall be made by the Commission to any such city or 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 sur-
face width of not less than sixteen feet ; and any such street established after
July first, nineteen hundred fifty, shall have an unrestricted right of way
width of not less than fifty feet and a hard surface width of not less than
thirty feet; provided, however, that cul-de-sacs may have an unrestricted
right of way width of not less than forty feet and a turn around that meets
State Highway Commission standards.

Allocations and payments made pursuant to this section to such cities
and incorporated towns, shall be paid by the Commission to the governing
bodies of such cities and towns from funds allocated under § 33-35.1.

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this section, any incorporated
town which shows to the Commission by satisfactory evidence that its popu-
lation has increased to thirty-five hundred inhabitants, or more, since the
last preceding United States census, shall be included in the provisions of
this section.

Plans and specifications for construction and reconstruction shall be
approved by the State Highway Commissioner.

The fund 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 Commission.

The city or town receiving this fund will be required to make quarterly
reports accounting for all expenditures and certifying that none of the
money received has been expended for other than the maintenance, improve-
ment, construction or reconstruction of the streets in such city or town.