Chap. 40.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3035 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended, authorizing cities and towns to provide pensions, death benefits,
insurance or annuities for certain officers and employees or their dependents, in-
cluding certain retired teachers and retired employees of school boards. [H B 10]

Approved February 22, 1946

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section thirty hundred thirty-five of the Code of Virginia,
as amended, be amended and re-enacted, as follows:

Section 3035. Pensions, death benefits, insurance or annuities for
officers and employees of cities and towns and their depend-
ents.—The governing bodies of cities and towns may, by ordinance
adopted by a recorded vote of a majority of the members elected or a
majority elected to each branch, if there be more than one branch, es-
tablish a system of pensions, death benefits or group insurance or other-
wise through insurance or annuities provide for injured, retired or super-
annuated officers and employees or dependents of deceased officers and
employees of such cities and towns, or any department thereof, including
retired teachers and other retired employees of such cities’ school boards,
other than those elected by the people. The ordinance may establish a
fund for the payment of such pensions, group insurance, death benefits,
insurance or annuities by making appropriations out of the treasury of the
city or town or by requiring contributions, payable from time to time, or
both ; or by any other mode not prohibited by law.