Chap. 294.-An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3082 of the Code of Vir.
ginia, as amended by an act approved March 22, 1920. (H B 128)

Approved March 20, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion three thousand and eighty two of the Code of Virginia, as
amended by an act approved March twenty-second, nineteen hundred
and twenty, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 3082. How bonds issued by city or town for any purpose;
what is required of council before bonds are issued.—Whenever it
is proposed by any town to issue bonds for any purpose, or any city
now or hereafter existing to borrow money and issue bonds contem-
plated by the provisions of clause “B,” section one hundred and
twenty-seven of the Constitution, not to be included within the other-
wise authorized indebtedness of such municipality, the council or the
board of control, if there be one, shall adopt an ordinance, reciting
the expediency of borrowing money by the municipality and the
issuance of bonds therefor, the amount of such issue, the length of
time for which they are to run, the interest to be paid thereon, and
the purpose for which the money realized therefrom is to be used,
and if for the purpose of borrowing money and issuing bonds
under the provisions of class (b), section one hundred and twenty-
seven of the Constitution, and not to be included within the otherwise
authorized indebtedness of such municipality, said ordinance shall
state that fact, as well as the specific undertaking for which the
said money is proposed to be borrowed, and said bonds are to be
issued, which ordinance in any case if passed by a council, shall be
upon the recorded affirmative vote of a majority of all the members
elected to the council, or to each branch thereof, where there are two
branches; and if such ordinance be vetoed by the mayor, it may be
adopted, notwithstanding such veto, in the manner prescribed by
section one hundred and twenty-three of the Constitution. After
adoption of such ordinance, a certified copy thereof shall be forth-
with presented to the corporation or circuit court having jurisdiction
over such city or town, or to the judge thereof in vacation. Provided,
however, that nothing herein shall be construed as repealing or affect-
ing the provisions of the charter of any city or town in this State.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its
passage,