CHAPTER 253

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 88-A of an act entitled “An
Act to provide a new charter for the City of Lynchburg,
Virginia’, approved March 21, 1928, as heretofore amended,
relating to when publication of ordinances unnecessary, and
to further amend such act, as amended, by adding two sec-
tions numbered 38-D and 88-E, respectively, empowering
the council to exercise the rights and privileges conferred
upon the Lynchburg Redevelopment and Housing Authority
by the Housing Authorities law, and empowering the coun-
cil to limit the depth of excavations and regulating the
rights and duties of adjoining property owners as to lateral
support of land.

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Approved April 3, 1950

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section thirty-eight-A of an act entitled “An Act to
provide a new charter for the city of Lynchburg, Virginia’,
approved March twenty-first, nineteen hundred and twenty-
eight, as amended, be amended and reenacted and that the act
as amended be further amended by adding two sections num-
bered thirty-eight-D and thirty-eight-E, respectively, such
amended and new sections being as follows:

§ 38-A. (1) Notwithstanding any provision of § 38, or
of any other sections of the charter of the City of Lynchburg,
as amended, it shall be unnecessary, whenever the Council of
such city shall codify, * recodify, revise or amend any existing
ordinance or ordinances or enact any new ordinance or ordi-
nances of said city, and cause the same, or any part thereof, to
be printed at one time or from time to time in book or pamphlet
form, to publish in a newspaper or otherwise any new, revised
or amended ordinance or ordinances, or any other ordinance or
ordinances, or any codification or recodification of any ordinance
or ordinances contained in any such book or pamphlet, and all
new, revised or amended ordinances, codifications or recodifica-
tions contained in any such book or pamphlet shall take effect at
such time, but not less than thirty days after the same have
been printed in such book or pamphlet form, as may be pre-
scribed by the council by ordinance.

(2) Notwithstanding any provision of paragraph (1) of
this section or of section thirty-eight, or of any other section of
the charter of the city of Lynchburg, as amended, it shall be
unnecessary to either publish in a newspaper or otherwise, or to
print in a book or pamphlet form any ordinance or ordinances
of said city which prohibit or regulate traffic or parking on
any designated street or streets, or other designated area or
areas, or which prohibit or regulate the dumping of trash or
other matter, or which prohibit or regulate any other specified
activity or activities in or near any designated streets, areas,
buildings or other locations; provided, however, such signs are
present, within or near such streets, areas, buildings or other
locations, as to apprise an ordinarily observant person of such
prohibitions or regulations, and such ordinance or ordinances
shall take effect at such time, but not before the signs called for
in said ordinance or ordinances have been erected, as may be
prescribed by the council by ordinance.

§ 38-D. The council of the city of Lynchburg may itself
exercise the same rights and privileges as are conferred upon the
“Lynchburg Redevelopment and Housing Authority” by the
Housing Authorities law. Such rights and privileges may be ex-
ercised by said council for such time or from time to time as said
council shall see fit or until said council in its discretion and in
accordance with the provisions of the Housing Authorities law
provides for the functioning of said “Lynchburg Redevelopment
and Housing Authority’.

§ 38-E. In addition to such powers as the council may
have under the provisions of section thirty-eight, or any other
section or sections of the charter of the city of Lynchburg, as
amended, or of any provisions of the general law, it shall have
authority to limit the depth of any future excavations within
the city and to regulate the rights and duties of adjoining prop-
erty owners as to the lateral support of land and improvements
thereon.

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