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.
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Volume | 1920 |
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Law Number | 458 |
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Chap. 458.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act approved Novem-
ber 24, 1884, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Boykins, in the
county of Southampton, and amended and re-enacted by an act approved
February 14, 1901, and amended by an act approved December 19, 1901,
and amended by an act approved March 16, 1910. [H B 262]
Approved March 24, 1920.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion five of an act approved November twenty-fourth, eighteen hun-
dred and eighty-four, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Boy-
kins, in the county of Southampton, as amended by an act approved
February sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, as amended by an
act approved February fourteenth, nineteen hundred and one, as
amended by an act approved December nineteenth, nineteen hundred
and one, as amended by an act approved March sixteenth, nineteen
hundred and ten, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
Sec. 5. The said council shall elect one of its members president,
who shall be empowered to discharge the duties of mayor of the said
town in the absence of the mayor or his inability to act. The said
council shall also have the power to elect a clerk, a treasurer, a ser-
reant, and such other officers as they may deem necessary for the said
town, to regulate their compensation, prescribe their duties, remove
them from office, and require bond, with approved security, for the
faithful performance of their respective duties. The clerk and treas-
urer may be elected from the council or from the electors of the said
town. The clerk shall annually, before the first day of May of each
year, go to each taxpayer and take the list of all personal property
that is subject to taxation for town purposes. The council shall alse
have power to pass all by-laws and ordinances for the government
of the said town which they may deem proper, not in conflict with
the Constitution of this State or of the United States; to mark accu-
rately the bounds of existing streets and alter or change the same.
and to lay off new streets, alleys or sidewalks, and keep them in order.
and to make other improvements, for which purposes the council of
said town shall have the same power and jurisdiction for condemning
lands for streets, alleys and sidewalks, as the supervisors have for
condemning lands for roads in the county ; to cause to be made a plat
and survey of the said town, showing distinctly its boundaries. its
public streets, alleys and sidewalks, and their width, with such re-
marks and explanations as they may deem proper; to regulate or pro-
hibit the running at large of animals and fowls; to provide and protect
shade trees; to establish a fire department, with suitable and neces-
sary conveniences ; to acquire land for and maintain a cemetery, and
make such rules and regulations for the government of the same as
they may deem necessary; to make regulations in reference to con-
tagious diseases; to abate nuisances; to provide for order and quiet
and the observance of the Sabbath within said town and one mile be-
yond its limits; to punish violations of the by-laws and ordinances
of the said council with fines and imprisonment, or either; to appoint.
every two years, one elector of said town to assess the value of real
estate within the limits of the said town for the purpose of taxation.
who shall certify his assessment to the council by the first of May.
and, in addition to the powers conferred by this act, shall have the
same power and authority as the councils of towns of less than five
thousand inhabitants under the general laws of the State; and for
the purpose of this incorporation, the said council may levy such
taxes as they deem proper on all property, real and personal, within
the said town, not to exceed three dollars on the one hundred dollars
assessed value, a capitation tax not to exceed one dollar; and a license
tax on every vocation, profession or business for which a State license
is required, and a tax on dogs, not to exceed one dollar; and spayed
female dogs one dollar, and unspayed female dogs two dollars each
year; but nothing contained in this act shall be construed to repeal
or amend any provision of the general laws of the State now tn effect
with respect to the segregation of taxes. In case of failure to pay
the tax on any dog, spav ed female dog, or unspayed female dog, each
year, at a time prescribed by the council, the same shall be killed by
the town sergeant under regulations to be prescribed by the council.
2. All acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed.
3. Whereas, an emergency exists, this act shall be enforced from
its passage.