CHAPTER 295

An Act to amend Chapter 84 of the Acts of Assembly of 1918, approved
February 7, 1918, as amended, which chapter provided a new charter
and special form of government for the city of Norfolk, by adding
thereto a section numbered 2(d) relating to the establishment of a
public wholesale market.

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Approved March 10, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That Chapter 34 of the Acts of Assembly of 1918, approved February
7, 1918, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a section numbered
2(d) as follows:

§ 2(d). Public wholesale market.—The city shall have power to
acquire, erect, construct, reconstruct, improve, equip, maintain and operate,
and lease buildings, structures and other facilities suitable or necessary
for a public wholesale market, and to acquire any land or rights in land
needed for such purposes. Such buildings, structures or other facilities
may include any building, structure or other facility suitable for use by
merchants, dealers, farmers and others engaged in the marketing of
perishable farm produce, fruits, vegetables, poultry, eggs, horticultural
products, dairy products, meats, sea food, dry groceries or frozen foods,
and in the operation of freezing and pre-packaging plants, and in the
furnishing of baskets and containers for farm produce and other articles
dealt in at said market. The city may make charges for the use of any of
the facilities afforded by said market.

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