Chap. 245.—An ACT to amend and reenact Section 1, as amended, of Chapter
10 of an act entitled “An Act to incorporate the city of Danville.”, approved
February 17, 1890, relating to police officers, to validate certain acts, and to
repeal certain acts. ; {H 417]

Approved March 13, 1948

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section one, as amended, of chapter ten of an act
entitled “An Act to incorporate the city of Danville.”, approved
February seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, be amended
and reenacted as follows:

Section 1. The office of Director of Public Safety and the
board of police commissioners of the city of Danville are severally
abolished. The mayor of the city of Danville shall have full and
exclusive jurisdiction over the police force of the city and over the
fire department of the city and the mayor shall be responsible for
the efficient operation of the police force and fire department. The
mayor shall have the power and authority to employ and discharge
the chief of the police force and the chief of the fire department.
The mayor shall have the sole power and authority to employ and
discharge such special police as may be required from time to time.
The number and compensation of the members of the police force
and fire departments shall be subject to approval by the council
of the city. The council may authorize the mayor to provide for
the regulation of traffic in the city. The council of the city of Dan-
ville is hereby authorized and empowered to make and grant such
immediate increase in the present salary of the mayor as in their
judgment may be commensurate with the additional duties imposed
upon the mayor by reason of the additional duties imposed here-
under.

2. All acts of the city, the Director of Public Safety, and the
Board of Police Commissioners under this section as it has been
amended heretofore are validated.

3. All provisions of the charter of the city in conflict with
this section as amended are repealed to the extent of such conflict.

4. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.