An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
Volume 1968 Law 99
Volume | 1908 |
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Law Number | 105 |
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Chap. 105.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled: An act incorpo-
rating Pamplin City, Virginia, approved March 24, 1874, as amended by an
act entitled: An act to amend and re-enact the third section of an act entitled:
An act incorporating Pamplin City, Virginia, approved March 31, 1875.
Approved February 29, 1908.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the act
entitled “an act incorporating Pamplin City, Virginia,’ approved
March twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, as amended
by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact the third section of an
act entitled an act incorporating Pamplin City, Virginia,” approved
March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:
2. That the town of Pamplin City, in the counties of Appomattox and
Prince Edward, as the same has been heretofore laid off into lots, streets,
and alleys, and as the same may be hereafter laid off and extended into
lots, streets, and alleys, shall be and continue to be, and is hereby made
a town corporate by the name of the town of Pamplin City, and by that
name shall have and exercise all the powers conferred upon towns of
less than five thousand population by the laws of the State of Virginia.
3. The boundaries of said town shall be, as follows: Beginning at a
rock pile on the Hixburg road above the place commonly known as
Lowe’s crossing; thence forty degrees, west fifty poles, to a point in
Davis’ field; thence south sixteen degrees, west fifty-six and a half poles,
to a white oak on Lynchburg road; thence south seven degrees, east one
hundred and thirty-eight poles, to a red oak, on Franklin’s estate;
thence south thirty-five degrees, east eighty poles, to a white oak;
thence seventy-two degrees, east one hundred and four and a half poles
to a rock pile on Elkin’s line; thence north thirty degrees, east seventy-
six and three-fifths poles to a white oak; thence north thirty-six degrees,
west fifty-seven poles, to a fence-post on the new road to Pamplin City;
thence north three degrees, east fifty-three and four-fifths poles, to an
oak tree; thence north seventy-seven and one-half degrees, west fifty-one
and one-half poles, to a poplar tree near a branch in Merrell’s land;
thence north thirty-six degrees, west eighty-eight poles, to a rock in
Dore Pamplin’s field; thence north fifteen degrees, west eighty-six poles
to the beginning.
4. There shall be elected by the qualified voters of said town, every
two years on the second Tuesday of June, one elector thereof who shall
be denominated the mayor, and six electors who shall be denominated the
councilmen of said town. The mayor and councilmen shall constitute
the council of said town. The first election under this act shall be
held on the second Tuesday in June in the year nineteen hundred and
eight. And the mayor and councilmen of said town who constitute the
present council thereof, and all other officers of said town shall continue
in office and to discharge the duties thereof until the term for which
they were respectively elected or appointed shall have expired, and until
their successors shall have been elected or appointed, and qualified.
5. The electoral board of the county of Appomattox (in which county
the greater part of said town is situated) shall, not less than fifteen days
before any election in said town, appoint one registrar and three judges
of election for said town, and the said judges of election shall also act
as commissioners of election. The said registrar shall, before any
election in said town, register all voters who are residents of said town,
and who shall have previously. registered in the county, or either of
them, in which said town is situated, and none others. The said registrar
shall be governed, as to his qualifications and powers, and in the per-
pormance of his duties, by the general laws of this Commonwealth, so
far as the same may be applicable.
6. Such list of registered voters shall be placed by the registrar in
the hands of the judges of election, who shall, at the time and in the
manner prescribed by law, open a poll at the place designated by an
ordinance of said town, or by the judges of election; and the manner of
receiving. the ballots and of canvassing the vote shall conform to the
general law; and for the purpose of canvassing the vote the judges of
the election shall meet at the clerk’s office of the county of Appomattox
and, acting as commissioners of election, shall canvass the vote and
declare the result. The clerk of the said county shall be ex-officio clerk
of said board of canvassers so constituted, and two of whom shall con-
stitute a quorum, and said clerk shall immediately make out, in pursuance
of the determination of the commissioners, a certificate of election for
each of the persons having the highest number of votes for mayor and
councilmen, respectively, and for any other office in said town voted for
at such election, or in case of a tie, who have been decided by lot to have
been elected, and deliver the same to the person elected upon his making
application therefor.
7. The persons so elected shall enter upon the duties of their office
on the first day of September next succeeding their election, and shall
continue in office until their terms shall have expired and their suc-
cessors shall have qualified.
8. Every person elected a councilman of said town shall take an
oath faithfully to execute the duties of his office to the best of his judg-
ment. The person elected mayor shall take the oath prescribed by law
for all State officers.
9. In addition to the powers conferred by the forty-fourth chapter of
the Code of Virginia, edition of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven and
acts amendatory thereof, and by other general provisions of the laws of
Virginia, the council of said town shall have power to lay off streets,
walks, and alleys; alter, improve, and light the same and have them
kept in good order, to lay off public grounds and provide all buildings
proper for the town; to provide a prison house and workhouse, and
employ managers, physicians, nurses and servants for the same, prescribe’
regulations for their government and discipline, and for the persons
therein; to prescribe the time for holding markets and regulate the
same; to prevent injury or annoyance from anything dangerous, of-
fensive, or unhealthy, and cause any nuisance to be abated; to regulate
the keeping of gun-powder and other combustibles, and provide maga-
zines for the same; to provide in or near the town water works and
places for the interment of the dead; to prevent the pollution of the
water and injury to the water works, for which purpose their juris-
diction shall extend five miles above the same; to make regulations con-
cerning the building of houses in the town; to make regulations for the
purpose of guarding against danger from accidents by fire, and, on
the petition of the owners of not less than two-thirds of the ground
included in any square, to prohibit the erection in such square of any
building, or any addition to any building more than ten feet high, unless
the outer walls thereof be made of brick and mortar, or of stone and
mortar, and provide for the removal of any building or addition erected
contrary to such prohibition; to provide for the weighing or measuring
of hay, coal, or any other articles for sale, and regulate the transportation
thereof through the streets; protect the property of the town and its
inhabitants, and preserve peace and good order therein. For carrying
into effect these and other powers, they may make ordinances and by-
laws, and prescribe fines or other punishments for violation thereof,
keep a town guard, appoint a@ colleetor of taxes and levies, and such
other officers as they may deem proper, define their powers, prescribe
their duties and compensation, and take from any of them a bond,
with sureties, in such penalty as to the council may seem fit, payable
to the town by its corporate name, and with condition for the faithfyl
discharge of the said duties. ‘
10. The council of said town, four members whereof, shall constitute
a quorum for the transaction pf business, may adopt rules for the regu-
lation of their proceedings, but no tax shall be levied or corporate debt
contracted unless by a vote of two-thirds of the council, which vote
shall be taker by yeas and nays, and recorded on the journal. The
mayor shall preside over the council, and when he is absent they may
appoint a-president pro tempore. A journal shall be kept of their pro-
ceedings and at the request of any member present the yeas and nays
shall be taken on any question. At the next meeting the proceedings
shall be read and signed by the person who was presiding when the pre-
vious meeting adjourned, or if he be not present, by the person pre-
siding when they were read.
11. In addition to the State tax on any license, the council of said
town may, when anything for which a license is so required within said
town, impose a tax for the privilege of doing the same, and require a
license to be obtained therefor; and in any case in which they see fit,
require from the person or corporation so licensed bond, with sureties,
in such penalty and with such condition as they may deem proper, or
make other regulations concerning the same. They may also impose
a tax and require a license to be obtained for the privilege of keeping
in the town for hire any wheeled carriage.
12. The council of said town shall cause to be made up and entered
on their journal an account of all sums lawfully chargeable on the
town which ought to be paid within one year, and order a town levy
of so much as in their opinion is necessary to be raised in that way in
addition to what may be received for licenses and from other sources.
The levy so ordered may be upon the male persons in the said town
above the age of twenty-one years, and upon any property therein, and
on such other subjects as may at the time be assessed with State taxes
against persons residing therein.
13. The time for the ‘regular meeting of the council of said town shall
be the first Tuesday in each month; and the council may be convened at
any time upon the call in writing of the mayor, or any three members
thereof.
14. The jurisdiction of the corporate authorities of said town in
criminal matters, and for the purpose of imposing and collecting a license
tax on.all shows, performances, and exhibitions, shall extend one mile
beyond the corporate limits thereof.
15. The mayor of said town and the other members of the council
shall be clothed with all the powers and authority of a justice in civil
matters within the corporate limits of the town, and in criminal matters
within said limits and one mile beyond the same; and shall have power
to issue process, hear and determine all prosecutions, cases and con-
troversies which may arise under the by-laws and ordinances of the
town; impose fines and inflict punishments when and wherever they
are authorized by said by-laws and ordinances, and issue executions for
the collection of said fines; and appeals may be taken to the circuit court
of the county from their decisions in both civil and criminal matters in
the same manner, and upon the same terms, and be tried in the same
way as appeals from the decision of a justice are taken and tried in
like cases, except that no appeal shall be granted from the decision of
the mayor or the member of the council trying same imposing a fine
for the violation of any of the ordinances or by-laws of said town for
offenses not made criminal by the common law or the statutes of Vir-
ginia until and after bond be given by the person so fined, with security
approved by the mayor or councilman imposing the same, conditioned
to pay all fines, costs, and damages that may he awarded by the said
court on appeal; the penalty of said bond to be double the sum sufficient
to pay all such fines, costs, and damages.
16. The town of Pamplin City shall have the use of the jail of Appo-
mattox county, to aid the constituted authorities of said town in main-
taining peace and good order, and generally for the enforcement of its
ordinances and by-laws, unless for good cause the judge of the circuit
court of said county shall prohibit such use.
17. An emergency existing on account of the election herein ordered,
this is declared to he an emergency act, and as such shall be in force
from its passage.