Chap. 174.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1, chapter 10, of an act
entitled an act to incorporate the city of Danville, approved February 17,
1890, as heretofore amended. [H B 379]

Approved March 20, 1930

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
one of chapter ten of an act entitled an act to incorporate the city of
Danville, approved February seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety,
as heretofore amended, be further amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows:

1. On and after the first day of September, nineteen hundred and
thirty-two, the board of police commissioners of the city of Danville
shall consist of the mayor of said city, who shall be ex-officio chairman,
and two members of the council, to be appointed by the mayor of said
city, and two qualified voters of said city who shall be appointed from
the city at large by the judge of the corporation court of said city, for
a term of two years.

(a) The said police commissioners, after taking the oath of office
as such commissioners, shall, as soon as practicable, meet at the office
of the mayor or other suitable place, as they may decide upon, and or-
ganize by the election of one of its members as secretary. They shall
perform the duties of said office without compensation, and shall per-
form such duties connected with the police department as the council
shall delegate to it in addition to such duties as are prescribed by this
act.
(b) It shall be the duty of the said police commissioners to select
from the electors of said city, and appoint by warrant of appointment,
bearing the signature of at least two of said commissioners, to be im-
mediately filed with the city auditor, as many police officers, including

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men, ef cetera, as the city council may provide tor the proper policing
of said city of Danville; provided that the first election under this ordi-
nance shall take place in March of nineteen hundred and seventeen, or
as soon thereafter as practicable, on such date as the commissioners
may determine, prior to the expiration of the terms of said police and all
subsequent elections shall be held in March or as soon thereafter as
practicable, the election of police officers to be for a term of two years,
provided that police officers who may be in the service of the city of
Danville at the time this act goes into effect shall continue to serve
out the term for which they may have been elected prior to the passage
of this act, unless removed from office by said commissioners as here-
inafter provided.