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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>83987</law_id><section_number>33.2-708</section_number><catch_line>Pay to viewers, commissioners, and engineers</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="33.2">Highways and Other Surface Transportation Systems</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Modes of Transportation: Highways, Bridges, Ferries, Rail, and Public Transportation</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="7">Local Authority Over Highways</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="2">Establishment, Alteration, and Discontinuance of Highways</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>A statement in writing showing the number of days each viewer or <span class="dictionary">commissioner</span> and engineer, appointed or employed under the provisions of this article, was employed shall be sworn to and presented to the governing body, and the governing body may allow a reasonable compensation not exceeding $50 per day to each viewer or <span class="dictionary">commissioner</span> and not exceeding $7.50 per day and necessary traveling expenses for the engineer, provided that in any county adjoining a county having a population in excess of 1,000 per square mile and in the County of Henrico, the governing body may pay the viewers, <span class="dictionary">commissioners</span>, and engineers in addition to expenses not exceeding $25 a day for each day they were respectively employed hereunder.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 33-155; 1950, p. 157; 1966, c. 438; 1970, c. 322, &#xA7; 33.1-242; 1975, c. 445; 1978, c. 305; 2014, c. 805.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
