CHAPTER 21

An Act to amend and reenact § 64 of Chap 84 of the Acts of Assembly
of 1918, approved February 7, 1918, which chapter provided a charter
and special form of government for the city of Norfolk, and which
section relates to the suspension and removal of the chief of police
and fire chtef of said city.

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Approved February 11, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 64 of Chap 34 of the Acts of Assembly of 1918, approved
February 7, 1918, which chapter provided a charter and special form of
government for the city of Norfolk, be amended and reenacted so as to
read as follows:

§ 64. SUSPENSION AND REMOVAL OF CHIEF OF POLICE AND FIRE CHIEF.

The city manager shall have the power to suspend or dismiss the
chief of police and the fire chief at any time, and his action in every such
case shall be final; provided that in the event the chief of police or the fire
chief was appointed to such position from the membership of his respec-
tive division, he shall, at the time of any such suspension or dismissal, or
at any time prior thereto, at his request, be restored to the rank he held
in the classified service in such division at the time of his appointment as
such chief, without being required to take any examination, subject, how-
ever, to the provisions of § 638 of this Charter.