33.1-79 - Maintenance, etc., of streets and roads in certain towns from secondary funds.
§ 33.1-79. Maintenance, etc., of streets and roads in certain towns fromsecondary funds.
The Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner of Virginia is hereby authorizedand empowered, subject to the approval of the Commonwealth TransportationBoard, upon request of the governing bodies of incorporated towns of lessthan 3,500 inhabitants, according to the last United States census, to selectcertain streets and roads in such towns for maintenance, improvement,construction and reconstruction from allocations available from secondaryfunds not to exceed 2 miles of streets or roads in such incorporated townsincluded in the secondary system of highways, whether such 2 miles of streetsor roads constitute connecting links between roads in the secondary system inthe several counties, or between roads in the secondary system and roads inthe primary system, of the state highways or not.
The said Commissioner is hereby authorized and empowered, with the approvalof the Commonwealth Transportation Board, in addition to the said two milesto increase the mileage of streets and roads in such incorporated townsannually, not to exceed, however, in any one year one-fourth mile, exclusiveof any mileage transferred from the primary system under the provisions of §33.1-35, or any mileage maintained by the Department of Transportation priorto its annexation by such incorporated town.
(Code 1950, § 33-50.1; 1954, c. 534; 1970, c. 322.)