University of Virginia Library

TRAFFIC CONTROL

The President stated that enabling legislation had been passed at the last session of
the General Assembly authorizing the Board of Supervisors of Albemarle County, upon request of The
Rector and Visitors to adopt an ordinance controlling parking on the grounds at the University.

Mr. Venable Minor, Special Counsel for the University, has drafted the resolution set
forth below to conform to the state statute, together with a proposed ordinance to be passed by
the Board of Supervisors of Albemarle County. In his covering letter Mr. Minor stated that the
proposed ordinance had been approved by Mr. Downing L. Smith, Commonwealth Attorney of Albemarle
County, Mr. Sidney D. Watson, Trial Justice, and Mr. Houchens, Chief of the University Police. A
motion was made and unanimously approved that the Board (1) dispense with the reading of the resolution
and ordinance and (2) that the resolution as set forth below be adopted:

RESOLVED by the Board of Visitors of the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia
which Board is the governing body of the University of Virginia, a state supported institution
lying wholly within the County of Albemarle, that the Board of Supervisors of said County of
Albemarle be, and is hereby, requested to adopt ordinances governing parking of motor vehicles
and all other vehicles on the roads, streets, alleys, grounds and other areas within the boundaries
of the University of Virginia.

And be it further Resolved: That Barron F. Black, Rector of the University of Virginia,
and as such, the presiding officer of said Board of Visitors is requested to transmit this request
to the Board of Supervisors of Albemarle County in writing and over his signature as Rector and
Presiding Officer of this Board, said request to be accompanied by a copy of this and the foregoing
Resolution certified by Vincent Shea, Secretary of this Board over the seal of the Rector and
Visitors of the University of Virginia, and these resolutions being adopted pursuant to provision
of our Acts of Assembly approved April 1, 1952 - See Acts 1952 p. 770.