Case ID: ga-app_10/html/0337-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Hill, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

3493.
    WHITEHEAD v. MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF VIENNA.
    1. A provision in the charter of a city, authorizing the mayor and council to require all male residents of the municipality, between the ages of sixteen and fifty years, who have resided in the city for thirty days, to work the streets of the city, or to pay a commutation tax in lieu thereof, is valid and enforceable as provided therein, although the general law of the State designates the persons subject to road duty, where the alternative road law is in effect, as “between the age of twenty-one and fifty years.”
    2. A local law for the county of Dooly, in which the city of Vienna is located, providing' that the county convicts shall work the main streets through the city of°Vienna, does not affect the validity of the charter provision stated in the first headnote. Both local law and charter provisions can be enforced, and there is no conflict between the two.
    Decided January 15, 1912.
    Certiorari; from Dooly superior court — Judge Whipple.
    May 29,
    1911.
    
      George & Woodward, for plaintiff' in error.
   Hill, C. J.

The State has various schemes, subject to county local option, as to working the rural public roads. Various ages are prescribed as to persons subject to road duty under these different schemes. See Wright v. Sheppard, 5 Ga. App. 298 (63 S. E. 48), and citations'. None of these enactments relate to the working of streets in towns and cities. As to this the municipal charter in each case controls. Judgment affirmed.