Chap. 374.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4 of Chapter 64 of the Acts
of Assembly of 1922, approved February 25, 1922, which provided a new
charter for the City of Suffolk, the section relating to composition and com-
pensation of council, and filling vacancies. [fH B 409}

Approved March 28, 1946

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section four of chapter sixty-four of the Acts of Assembly
of nineteen hundred twenty-two, approved February twenty-five, nine-
teen hundred twenty-two, be amended and re-enacted, as follows:

Section 4. Composition of council; vacancies.—The council shall
consist of five members, who shall be elected on a general ticket at large,
and shall serve for a term of four years from the first day of September
next following the date of their election and until their successors shall
have been elected and qualified; provided, however, that at the first elec-
tion hereunder the three candidates having the highest number of votes
shall serve for four years, and the two candidates having the next highest
number of votes shall serve for two years. The council shall be a con-
tinuing body, and no measure pending before such body shall abate or be
discontinued by reason of the expiration of the term of office or removal
of the members of said body, or any of them. The members of the coun-
cil shall each be paid the sum of ten dollars for each meeting they actually
attend but they shall not receive more than two hundred and forty dollars
in any one year.
Vacancies in the council shall be filled within thirty days, for the
unexpired term, by a majority vote of the remaining members, except
as otherwise provided by general law.