CHAPTER 110

An Act to amend and reenact § 50, as amended, of Chap 8 of the Acts
of Assembly of 1948, approved February 11, 1948, which provided a
new charter for the city of Waynesboro. rH 919)

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Approved February 23, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 50, as amended, of Chap 3 of the Acts of Assembly of 1948,
approved February 11, 1948, be amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 50. * In addition to the other powers conferred by law, the city
Shall have the right and power to impose an assessment upon abutting
owners for making and improving the walkway upon then existing streets,
and for improving and paving then existing alleys, and for either the con-
struction of or use of sewers, provided, that the assessment so imposed
shall not be in excess of the peculiar benefits resulting therefrom to such
abutting landowners. Such improvements may be ordered by the council
and the cost thereof apportioned in pursuance of an agreement between
the city and abutting landowners. And in the absence of an agreement,
improvements, the cost of which is to be defrayed in whole or in part by
such local assessment, may be ordered on a petition from not less than
three-fourths of the landowners affected thereby, or by a two-thirds vote
of all the members elected to the council. But notice shall first be given
as provided by § 15-674 of the Code of Virginia to the abutting land-
owners, notifying them when and where they may appear before the
council or some committee thereof, or the administrative board or other
similar board of the city, to whom the matter may be referred, to be
heard in favor of or against such improvements. The cost of such improve-
ment, when the same shall have been ascertained, but not to exceed the
peculiar benefits resulting therefrom to such abutting landowners, shall
be assessed or apportioned by the council or some committee thereof, or
by any officer or board authorized by the council to make such assessment
or apportionment, between the city and the abutting landowners.

Notice to the abutting landowners of the amount assessed or appor-
tioned shall be given pursuant to §§ 15-678 and 15-674. Any abutting
landowner aggrieved by such assessment shall have the right of appeal
to the Corporation Court for the City of Waynesboro, Virginia, and the
proceedings upon such appeal shall be in accordance with 8§ 15-675 and
15-676 of the Code of Virginia.