Chap. 81.—An ACT to provide a mode by which cities of this Common-
wealth having a population in excess of 100,000 may request the
general assembly to grant a special form of government for any such
city. (S. B. 192.)

Approved March 13, 1914.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the council of any city of this Commonwealth having a population
in excess of one hundred thousand, may by ordinance adopted and
approved in the mode prescribed by law, propose a form of city
government to supercede and take the place of the charter of the
city proposing the same and of any and all statutes concerning
the government of cities and towns in anywise applicable to such
city, and shall provide in said ordinance for the submitting of such
form to the qualified voters of such city, at an election to be held,
conducted and the result ascertained in the mode prescribed by law
for the holding of special elections, and when so ascertained the
result thereof to be by the commissioners of elections reported to
the council of such city; and, thereupon, should the majority of the
persons voting in said election approve of such form of govern-
ment so submitted, the council of the city shall request the general
assembly, at its next session to approve and declare such special
form of government so approved the charter for the government of
such city.