CHAP. 354.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 123 of an act entitled
an act to provide a new charter for the city of Bristol and to repeal
all other acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith, approved March
17, 1908. (H. B. 470.)

Approved March 20, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section one hundred and twenty-three of an act entitled an act
to provide a new charter for the city of Bristol, and to repeal all
other acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith, approved March
seventeenth, nineteen hundred and eight, be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 123. The chief of police shall be collector of delinquent
city personal tax, fines, and such other levies and assessments
as the council may prescribe. He shall take the delingent per-
sonal property tickets delivered to him by the city clerk and
proceed to collect the same as the council may direct, and for
that purpose shall have all the powers and authority and be
subject to the same liabilities and penalties as are prescribed
for the collector in the collection of State taxes and county and
city levies, and may be proceeded against in the same manner,
so far as applicable and consistent with the provisions of this
act. He shall pay over to the city treasurer on the warrant of
the city clerk, all taxes collected by him at least once a month,
or oftener if required, and all moneys which come into his hands
for taxes or otherwise belonging to the city. He shall report to
the council at each stated meeting the amount of money collected
by him and paid over as herein directed. At the end of each
fiscal year he will return all delinquent tax tickets in his hands
which he has been unable to collect, appending to said report
the reason why said tickets are returned. The said chief of
police shall collect all fines imposed by the police justice, mayor,
or other officer, and shall, at least twenty-four hours before each
stated council meeting, file with the clerk a report of all fines
entrusted to him for collection by the police justice and said’
report shall conform with the books of the police justice as to
number of names and amounts of fines, and the said report-shall
show what disposition has been made of each fine, and the
amount collected on fines shall be paid to the city treasurer on
the warrant of the clerk. The said police officer shall receive
such compensation for the collection of taxes, et cetera, as the
council may prescribe, and his salary and commissions together
shall in no case exceed the sum of twelve hundred dollars per
annum.