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An ordinance prohibiting o~nership, and/or possession, and/or control of a pig or pigs confined in any enclosure in Chesterfield County, within 500 feet of any church, scho~ol, public meeting place, private residence of another, and~or within 100 feet of any public road, street or avenue, and setting out certain definitions and providing for a penalty for the violation thereof, and repealing a similar ordinance. Under and by virtue of the authority conferred upon theBoard of Supervisors of Chesterfield County, Virginia, by an ~ct of the General ~ssembly of Virginia, approved April 2, 1942, and known as Chapter 389 of the said Acts of Assembly, this Board having carefully considered the matter, doth ordain ~s follows: Section 1. That the ownership, and/or possession and/or control of a pig or pigs confined in any enclosure in Chesterfield County, within 500 feet of any church, school, public meeting place, private residence of another, and/or within 100 feet of any public road, street or avenue, is prohibited. Section 2. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to own and/or ossess and/or control a pig or pigs confined in any enclosure in Chesterfield cunt¥, within 500 feet of any church, school, public meeting place, private residence of another and/or within 100 feet of any public road, street or avenue. Section 3. ~nY person, firm or corporation who or which shall violate the provisions of this ordinance shall upon conviction thereof be punished by a fine not exceeding $50.00and by confinement in Jail not exceeding 30 days, eit~r or bo~ ~ection 4. The term "pig or pigs" as used in this ordinance shall mean swine of all ages. Section 5. Trials of all violations of this ordinance shall be enforced by proceedings before the Trial Justice Court in like manner and with like right of appeal as is provided in misdemeanor cases. Section 6. The term" enclosures" am used in this ordinance means any enclosed a~ well defined area used.for the housing and/or feeding of swine, and/or that part of a swine pasture which is used for the feeding of swine. Section 7. Thais ordinance shall not be construed as in any sense limiting and/or replacing and/er affecting any state law appertaining to common and/or public nuisance s. ~ he ~d/or Section 8. If any section or part of a section of this ordinance is hereafter held by any Court of competent Jurisdiction to be unconstitutional and invalid, such decision shall in no wise affect or render void the remainder of this ordinance. Section 9. An ordinance adopted by this Board on the 8th day of September, 19~3, probhiting the ownership and/or possession and/or control of a pig or pigs confined in any enclosure in any sanitary district of Chesterfield County is hereb repealed. This day Supervisor H. T. Goyne. called the Board'a Stention to a condition existing on the highway in the Village of Chester, stating t'hat the bridge over the Atlantic Coast Line Ry. near the Chester High School was inadequate for the traffic now being passed over it, and that recently a least one school child had been struck by a vehicle and while no injury was sustained it was a forceful example of what could happen on this bridge. He suggested that the bridge formerly used by the Virginia Electric & Power Company now owned by the Virginia Department of Highways, together with approaching roads be conditioned for travel and be used as a one-way bridge for west bound traffic on Route $1 at this point; that the existing bridge be used for one-way travel for east bound traffic at this point, and that by so doing it would relieve the necessity of passing on the present narrow bridge and would give an opportunity to develop a protected walk along these bridges. Upon consideration whereof, and on motion of H. T. Goyne, it is resolved that the Virginia Department of Highways be and it hereby is requested to make a survey of this situation and to take such steps as possibl~ during this t&me of emergency to relieve this congestion. ~nd be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be sent to the Virginia Department of Highways.