CHAPTER 244

An Act to amend and reenact § 88-D of an act entitled “An Act to Pro-
vide a New Charter for the City of Lynchburg, Virginia’, approved
March 21, 1928, as heretofore amended, to permit members of Coun-
cil, during their respective terms of office, to act as commissioners
of the “Lynchburg Redevelopment and Housing Authority”, provided
that, prior to such authority functioning, a resolution be adopted by
Council declaring the need for such an authority in the City and
declaring that the members of the Council shall act as the commis-
sioners of the authority, which declaration may be made, and any
determination made by said authority to undertake any particular
housing or redevelopment project or projects, when its commissioners
are so designated, shall be effective without the prerequisite of an
election being held to determine the question as provided by the Hous-

ing Authorities Law.
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia as follows:

1. That § 38-D 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 heretofore amended by Chapter 253 of the
Acts of Assembly, 1950, approved April third, nineteen hundred and fifty,
be amended and reenacted so as to read as follows: .

§ 38-D. Notwithstanding any of the provisions of the Housing
Authorities Law (§§ 36-1, et seq., of the Code of Virginia, as amended),
the members of the Council of the City of Lynchburg, Virginia, during
their respective terms of office as councilmen, are authorized and empow-
ered to act as the Commissioners of the Lynchburg Redevelopment and
Housing Authority, whenever the said Council shall adopt a resolution
declaring

7 (1) The need for an authority to function in the City of Lynchburg;
an

(2) The determination that the members of the Council of the City
of Lynchburg, shall act as the Commissioners of the said Authority.

Should the Council determine to act as the Commissioners of the
Lynchburg Redevelopment and Housing Authority as above provided, it
shall designate which of the Commissioners shall be the Chairman of the
Authority, and four Commissioners shall constitute a quorum of the said
Authority for the purpose of conducting its business and exercising its
powers and for all purposes, and action may be taken by the Authority
upon the vote of a majority of the Commissioners present, unless in any
case the by-laws of the Authority shall require a larger number. The
determination of the Council made hereunder and any determination that
may be made by the Authority as constituted hereunder shall be effective
without the prerequisite of an election being held to determine the question
as provided by the Housing Authorities Law. .

Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent the Council
and the Authority from otherwise proceeding under and in accordance
with the Housing Authorities Law.

2. An emergency exists and this act shall be in force from its passage.