Chap. 119.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 93 of an act entitled, “an
act to provide a new charter for the City of Richmond’, approved March
24, 1926. [H B 175]

Approved March 12, 1938

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

Section 93. The chief, assistants and other members of the fire
department and the chief, assistants and other members of the fire
alarm and police telegraph department shall be appointed to serve
during good behavior and efficiency and the said director, under rules
and regulations to be established by him, may retire the members
of the fire and fire alarm departments for incapacity to perform their
duties, and the chief of the fire department, subject to the approval
of the director of public safety shall appoint the members of the fire
department, the number to be fixed by the council and the chief of
the fire alarm and police telegraph department, subject to the approval
of the director of public safety shall appoint the members of the
fire alarm and police telegraph department; provided that any officer
or member of the fire department may be fined by the chief of the
fire department for good cause shown, such fine to be deducted from
his pay, or may, with the approval of the said director, be removed
or suspended from the force or reduced in rank when the same shall
be, in the judgment of the chief of the fire department for the good
of the service; and provided further, that any officer or member of
the fire alarm and police telegraph department may be fined by the
chief of the fire alarm and police telegraph department for good
cause shown, such fine to be deducted from his pay or may, with the
approval of the said director, be removed or suspended from the
force or reduced in rank when the same shall be in the judgment
of the chief of the fire alarm and police telegraph department, for
the good of the service.