Chap. 175.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of chapter 362 of the acts
of assembly of 1916, approved March 20, 1916, which was an act to pro-
vide a new charter for the town of Parksley, as amended by an act ap-
proved February 18, 1924. [H B 380]

Approved March 20, 1930

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
eight of chapter three hundred and sixty-two of the acts of assembly
of nineteen hundred and sixteen, as amended by an act approved Feb-
ruary eighteenth, nineteen hundred and twenty-four, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 8. The said council shall also have power to impose a
specific license tax on all shows, performances and exhibitions which
may be given in said town. It shall also have power to impose a specific
license tax on all other business carried on in said town for which a
State license tax is required, and to levy annually such taxes as may
be deemed necessary on all real and personal property within said town
for the purposes of said corporation, provided that said levy shall not
exceed seventy-five cents on the one hundred dollars valuation of prop-
erty as per State assessment; and provided, further, that nothing in
this section or elsewhere in this act, shall be construed as authorizing
the imposition of taxes or license fees in any case where the imposition
of said taxes or license fees by cities and towns is prohibited by general
law.

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