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
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Chap. 120.—An ACT to provide for submitting the question of the sale of
liquor by a dispensary in the town of Scottsville, Virginia, to the quali-
fied voters of said town, and to prohibit any other election to be held
in said town upon the question of the sale of liquor therein, in any
manner, within 2 years after any election is held under this act.
(H. B. 113.)
Approved March 17, 1914.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
whenever such of the qualified voters of the town of Scottsville,
Virginia, as shall be equal in number to one-fourth of the quali-
fied voters in said town, shall, in term or vacation, petition the
judge of the circuit court of the county of Albemarle for a special
election in said town on the question of the sale of liquor by the
dispensary in said town, said court or judge shall within ten days
after the receipt of said petition issue a writ of election, in which
shall be fixed the day of holding such election, directed to the ser-
geant of said town, whose duty it shall be to forthwith post a
notice of said election at the front door of the town hall, in said
town. He shall also give notice to the officers charged with the
duty of conducting municipal elections in said town, but no elec-
tion shall be held under the provisions of this act within less than
thirty days from the posting of such notice as aforesaid, nor
within thirty days of any other regular election. Said special elec-
tion shall be held and conducted as other special elections are held
and conducted.
2. The ballots to be used in said election shall be, respectively,
as follows: “For dispensary” and “Against dispensary.” The man-
ner of receiving and canvassing the ballots and making returns
and abstracts thereof shall conform in all respects to the require-
roents of the general election law, except that the certificate of
the judges shall be as follows:
We hereby certify that ‘at the election held on the........ day
GLoarawennewoews votes were cast for dispensary and..............4.
votes were cast against dispensary.
KE. F.
A. B. G. H.
Cc. D. J. K.
Clerks. Judges.
8. All elections held under this act shall be held at the place,
or places, where municipal elections are held in said town.
The proper official canvassers of the general election returns
for municipal elections in said town shall canvass these returns
in like manner as other election returns, and they shall certify the
number of votes cast for and against the dispensary, respectively,
to the town council of said town, and a copy of such certificate shall
be laid before the circuit court at its next term.
4. If it appears from the abstracts and returns that a majority
of the votes cast at such election were against the sale of liquor
by the dispensary, then no wines, spirituous or malt liquors or any
mixture thereof shall thereafter be sold within said town, except
that the managers of said dispensary shall have sixty days to dis-
pose of the stock on hand, either by retail or wholesale.
But if it appears from the said abstracts and returns that a
majority of the votes cast at such election were in favor of the
sale of liquor by the dispensary, then the said dispensary and the
sale of liquor thereby may be continued as under the act providing
for the holding of an election in the town of Scottsville, on the
question of a liquor dispensary in said town, and so forth, approved
the twenty-third day of December, nineteen hundred and three.
After any such election has been held in said town there shall
not be another election held under this act, or upon the question
of the sale of liquor in any manner in said town within two years.
5. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby
repealed.