Chap. 532.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 129 of the Code of Virginia,
as heretofore amended, in relation to officers of cities, their election or ap-
pointment and term of office. [H B 338]

Approved March 25, 1926.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
one hundred and twenty-nine of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore
amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 129. Providing for officers of cities, their election or
appointment and term of office.—In each city of this Commonwealth
there shall be elected by the qualified voters thereof on the second
Tuesday in June, nineteen hundred and twenty, and every four years
thereafter, a mayor, who shall be the chief executive officer of such
city, whose term of office shall begin on the first day of September
succeeding his election, and continue for four years thereafter. On
the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, nineteen hundred
and twenty-one, and every four years thereafter, the qualified voters
of each of the cities of the Commonwealth shall elect a city sergeant,
an attorney for the Commonwealth, a city treasurer, and all other city
officers elected by such qualified voters, whose election is not other-
wise provided for by law, whose term of office shall begin on the first
day of January next succeeding their election, and continue for four
years thereafter. In each city which has a court in whose office deeds
are admitted to record, except the cities of Bristol, Radford, Buena
Vista and Hopewell, there shall be elected by the qualified voters on
the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, nineteen hundred
and twenty-one, and every eight years thereafter, a clerk of such court
to be called the clerk of the corporation or hustings court, whose term
of office shall begin on the first day of February of the second year after
such election, and shall continue thereafter for eight years, and in the
city of Richmond there shall be elected also at the same time and for
the same time and for the same terms a clerk of the chancery court,
and a clerk of the law and equity court, and a clerk of the hustings
court, and a clerk of the hustings court, part two, of the city of Rich-
mond, whose term of office shall begin on the first day of February of
the second year after such election.

In cities having a population of thirty thousand or more, except
the cities of Roanoke and Lynchburg, there shall be elected by the
qualified voters a separate clerk of the circuit court of such city on the
Tuesday after the first Monday in November, nineteen hundred and
nineteen, and every eight years thereafter, whose term of office shall
begin on the first day of January, succeeding his election and continue
thereafter for eight years. The clerk of the corporation court of the
city of Roanoke shall also be the clerk of the circuit court of said city,
and shall perform all the duties thereof and receive the compensation
provided therefor by law. All acts heretofore performed by the clerk
of the corporation court as acting clerk of the circuit court of said city
are hereby ratified and given the same effect as though performed by a
duly elected and qualified clerk of the circuit court.

At the expiration of the present term of the clerk of the circuit
court of the city of Lynchburg, and at the expiration of the present
term of the clerk of the corporation court for said city, or upon the
occurrence of a vacancy in either of said offices before the expiration
of said terms, the clerk of the corporation court for the city of Lynch-
burg shall also be the clerk of the circuit court of said city, and shall
perform all the duties thereof and receive the compensation provided
therefor by law.

In the cities of Radford, Bristol and Buena Vista there shall be
elected by the qualified voters on the Tuesday after the first Monday
in November, nineteen hundred and nineteen, and every eight years
thereafter, and in the city of Hopewell there shall be elected by the
qualified voters on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November,
nineteen hundred and thirty-three, and every eight years thereafter,
unless such courts are sooner abolished, a clerk of such city court, to
be called the clerk of the corporation court, whose term of office shall
begin on the first day of February, following his election, and continue
for eight years thereafter, unless the said court shall be sooner abolished.

On the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, nineteen
hundred and twenty-one, and every four years thereafter, the quali-
fied voters of each of the cities of this Commonwealth shall elect a
commissioner of the revenue, whose term of office shall begin on the
first day of January next succeeding his election and continue for four
years thereafter.