Chap. 19.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 8, as heretofore amended, of an
act entitled ‘‘An act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Culpeper,”’
approved January 11, 1898, so as to authorize the payment of compensation to
members of the council of such town. fH B 55]

Approved February 9, 1940

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That
section eight, as heretofore amended, of an act entitled ‘An act to
amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Culpeper,” approved
January eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 8. At its first meeting in September, nineteen hundred
and thirty-six, and biennially thereafter, the council shall elect one
of its members to act as president, who shall be mayor and who shall
preside and also have a vote on all questions. If a vacancy occur in
the office before the end of his term, such vacancy shall be filled as
is hereinafter provided for. At the same time the council shall elect
one of its members to be vice-president and who shall be vice-mayor
and who shall preside at such meetings in the absence of the president
and who, when the president shall be absent or unable to perform
any and all duties so entrusted to the president. The president or
vice-president, when acting as president, shall have power at any
time to call a meeting of said council. Each member of the council
may receive a salary to be fixed by the council, but such salary shall
not be in excess of an amount equal to five dollars per member for
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each meeting attended, and not in excess of one hundred and twenty
dollars per year for each such member.

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