Chap. 348.—An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection 7 and 11 of section 2
and section 56 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the
city of Roanoke and to repeal the existing charter of said city and the
several acts amendatory thereof and all other acts and parts of acts incon-
sistent with this act so far as they relate to the city of Roanoke, approved
March 22, 1924. [H B 343]

Approved March 24, 1926.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sub-
section seven and eleven of section two and section fifty-six of an act
entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Roanoke and
to repeal the existing charter of said city and the several acts amend-
atory thereof and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with
this act so far as they relate to the city of Roanoke, approved March
twenty-two, nineteen hundred and twenty-four, be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 2, subsection 7. To make and maintain public improve-
ments of all kinds, including municipal and other public buildings,
armories, markets, comfort stations or rest rooms and all buildings
and structures necessary or appropriate for the use of the departments
of fire and police, and to establish a market or markets in and for said
city, and to appoint proper officers therefor; to prescribe the time and
place for holding the same; to provide suitable buildings and grounds
therefor, and to enforce such regulations as shall be necessary to
prevent huckstering, forestalling and regrating, and fer the purpose
of regulating and controlling the sale of fresh meat, fresh fish, farm
and domestic products in said city, the council shall have authority
to confide the sale of such articles or products to the public markets
and public squares provided by the city for that purpose, and shall
have full power and authority to use such streets, avenues or alleys
in the city as may be necessary to provide for vehicles from which
farm and domestic products are offered for sale, and shall have auth-
ority to levy and collect a license tax for the sale of fresh meats and
fresh fish, and may impose a curbage tax for each wagon, cart or
other vehicle containing farm and domestic products brought into
said city and offered for sale, and to acquire by condemnation or
otherwise all lands, riparian and other rights and easements necessary
for such improvements, or any of them.

Subsection 11. To acquire by purchase, lease or condemnation
any existing water, gas or electric plant, works or system, water
power, or any part thereof, within or without the limits of the city
of Roanoke, and all real estate, personal property and appurtenances
used in connection therewith, or any part thereof, and all rights,
privileges and franchises or any part thereof owned by any person
or persons, manufacturing corporation or public service corporation
for the purpose of owning, acquiring, establishing, maintaining or
operating a water, gas or electric plant, works or systems, and in case
of any disagreement between the city and such person or persons,
manufacturing corporation or public service corporation, as to the
amount of price or compensation to be paid therefor, the said city
may condemn such water, gas or electric plant, works or system or
water power, real estate and personal property, and all corporate
rights, privileges, franchises and personal property and appurtenances
used in connection therewith, or any part thereof, whether the same
was owned or operated in whole or in part on prior to the eighteenth
day of February, nineteen hundred and eight, or has been owned or
operated since that date; but the said city shall not purchase, lease
or condemn such water, gas or electric plant, works or system, water
power or any part thereof, or any personal property or appurtenances
used in connection therewith, real estate or personal property cor-
porate rights, privileges and franchises, or any part thereof, until an
ordinance is passed by a majority of the whole council, providing for
the same, and published for at least thirty days in some newspaper
published and circulated in the city of Roanoke, and said ordinance
is approved by a majority of the free hold voters voting on the question
at an election to be called, held and conducted in accordance with an
ordinance adopted by the council for the city of Roanoke, providing
for such election and for giving due publicity to same, and also pro-
viding by whom and how the ballots shall be prepared and return
canvassed, and the result certified. In the event such an ordinance
is approved by a majority of the free hold voters and condemnation
proceedings is necessary to acquire such system, the award found in
any such proceedings shall be paid within twelve months after final
determination of the amount.

All sums necessary to pay the purchase price, lease or award, as
the case may be, shall be secured by the sale of bonds authorized by
the free hold voters voting at an election called, held and conducted
in accordance with section forty-seven of the charter of the city of
Roanoke.
Section 56. Powers and duties of the school board.—The school
trustees of said city shall be a body corporate under the name and
style of the school board of the city of Roanoke, and shall have all of
the powers, perform all of the duties and be subject to all of the
limitations now provided, or which may hereafter be provided by law
in regard to school boards of cities and except that all real estate with
the buildings and improvements thereon heretofore or hereafter pur-
chased with money received from the sale of bonds of this city, appro-
priated by the council or received from any other source for the
purpose of public education, shall be the property of the said city of
Roanoke, unless such money so received from any other source be
received on other conditions. The school board shall transmit to the
council and to the city auditor a detailed statement of all moneys
received by said board or placed to its credit. No money shall be
expended by said school board until the account, claims or demand
has been approved by said school board and a record thereof made in
the proceeding of said board, and said account, claim or demand
submitted to the auditor of the city of Roanoke for audit. After
such account, claim or demand has been audited as above provided,
a warrant on the city treasurer shall be drawn, signed by the chairman
of the board and countersigned by the clerk thereof, payable to the
person, or persons entitled to receive such money, and stating on the
face the purpose or service for which it is to be paid, and that such
warrant is drawn in pursuance of an order entered by the board on
the........ day of................. Separate accounts shall be
kept by the said board, of moneys appropriated by the council, and
moneys received from other sources, and every such statement ‘shall
show the balance of each class of funds on hand or under control of
said board as of the date thereof.

The said school board shall on or before the fifteenth day of
November of each year prepare and submit to the city manager for
his information in making up the annual budget a detailed estimate
of the amount of money required for the conduct of the public schools
of the city for the ensuing fiscal year, with an estimate of the amount
of all’funds which will probably be received by said board for the
purpose of public education from sources other than appropriations
by the council.