Chap. 403.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 8, as heretofore amended, of
Chapter III of an act entitled ‘‘An act to provide a charter for the city of
Petersburg.’’, approved March 11, 1875, relating to ordinances passed by the
council. [S B 354]

Approved April 1, 1940

1. Beit enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion eight as heretofore amended, of Chapter three of an act entitled
“An act to provide a charter for the city of Petersburg.”, approved
March eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 8. All ordinances hereafter passed by the council for
violation of which any penalty is imposed, shall be published once, at
least, in one of the newspapers of said city, to be designated by the
said council. A record or entry made by the clerk of said council, or a
copy of said record or entry, duly certified to by him, shall be prima
facie evidence of the publication of any such ordinance; and all laws,
regulations and ordinances of the council may be read in evidence in
all courts of justice, and in all proceedings before any officer, body or
board in which it shall be necessary to refer thereto, either from a copy
thereof, certified by the clerk of said council, or from the volume of
ordinances printed by the authority of the council. But the provisions
of this section as to publication of ordinances shall not apply to
ordinances embodied in any general compilation, codification or revis-
ion of ordinances, printed by authority of the council and adopted
by the council as a code.