Chap. 240.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 19 of an act entitled “an act
to provide a new charter for the city of Richmond,’ approved March 24,
1926, as heretofore amended. [S B 322]

Approved March 23, 1936

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion nineteen of an act entitled “an act to provide a new charter for
the city of Richmond,” approved March twenty-fourth, nineteen hun-
dred and twenty-six, as heretofore amended, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

Section 19. The council of the city of Richmond shall have power
to enact suitable ordinances to secure and promote the general welfare
of the inhabitants of the city, by them deemed proper for the safety,
health, peace, good order, comfort, convenience and morals of the
community; to make and adopt ordinances and resolutions concerning
the control and management of the fiscal and municipal affairs of the
city, and to prescribe and require the adoption and keeping of such
books, records, accounts and system or systems of accounting by the
departments, bureaus, boards, courts, commissions, heads of depart-
ments, officers, clerks and employees provided for by this charter or
otherwise by law, as shall in the opinion of the council be necessary to
the giving of full and true account of the revenues and resources of
the city and the expenditure and disposal thereof, and to the giving of
full, true and informative statements and reports of such revenues and
resources and the expenditure or disposal thereof, and to require the
preparation of such statements and reports; and to make and adopt ordi-
nances and resolutions concerning the control and management of all
property real and personal, belonging to the city; and also all ordinances
and resolutions deemed proper to secure the selection of honest and com-
petent officers and to promote efficiency and integrity in the discharge of
official duties ; and may, in their discretion, provide for the establishment
and maintenance of an employment bureau, by the aid of which unem-
ployed persons may secure employment; and no injunction shall be
awarded by any court or judge to stay the proceedings of the city of
Richmond in the prosecution of its works, authorized to be done under
this charter, unless it be manifest that it, its officers, agents or servants
are transcending the authority given it by this charter, and also that
the interposition of a court of equity is necessary to prevent injury
that cannot be adequately compensated in damages.

They shall, in addition, likewise have power to make such ordi-
nances, resolutions and regulations as they may deem desirable and
suitable to carry out the following specified powers, which are hereby
vested in them.

2. All acts or parts of acts, general and special, in conflict with the
provisions of this act, be and the same are hereby repealed to the
extent of such conflict, and especially all provisions of the charter of
the city of Richmond, in so far as the same conflict with the provi-
sions of this act are hereby amended so as to conform to the same.

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