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“We don’t want to be protected from ourselves.”
GEORGE DAVIS, Commonwealth’s Attorney, mused that soon “they’ll be telling you to hire an inspector before you can buy an automobile.”
H. B. Wood was anxious to get the matter settled. He made a motion that the building inspector not be authorized to inspect buildings.
“You don’t need any motion at all if you don’t want him to do anything,” George Davis said.
Then Pete Luke made a motion authorizing the building inspector to inspect, and for his time and services to be covered by a small fee. Luke voted yes. But Herbert Foster, Dick Latham, Clarence Baldwin and H. B. Wood all voted no.
Luke feared t)iis would mean the Attorney General’s office would see Rappahannock as circumventing the requirements of the state law. Commonwealth’s Attorney George Davis said the state statute requires that a building inspector be appointed, “but there is no provision for recourse if you don’t.”
LUKE, a bit disgruntled by the opposition, thought the Supervisors’ action would reduce the chances of Rappahannock’s eligibility for the federal flood insurance program, but Keith Martin, a representative from the Department of Housing and Urban De
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