CHAPTER 44

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 2.04, 4.08, 6.07, 7.05, 9.11, 9.12, 10.02,
13.03, 14.03 and 15.10, as severally amended, of Chapter 536 of the
Acts of Assembly of 1950, as amended, which Chapter provided the
charter for the city of Alexandria, the sections relating to powers of
the City Board of Review of real estate assessments, appropriation
and tax ordinances, form of bonds, duties of city planning commission
concerning zoning, powers of council in relation to zoning, vacancies
on council, alternative condemnation procedures, powers and duties
of city collector, and school board; and to further amend Chap 536
of the Acts of Assembly of 1950, by adding a section numbered 5.28
providing for a deputy city treasurer.

[H 225]

Approved February 18, 1964

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 2.04, 4.08, 6.07, 7.05, 9.11, 9.12, 10.02, 13.03, 14.03 and 15.10,
as severally amended, of Chapter 536 of the Acts of Assembly of 1950, as
amended, be amended and reenacted, and that such chapter 536 be further
amended by adding a section numbered 5.28, the amended and new sections
being as follows:

2.04. Power to Make Regulations for the Preservation of the
Safety, Health, Peace, Good Order, Comfort, Convenience, Morals and
Welfare of the City and Its Inhabitants. In addition to the powers granted
by other sections of this charter the city shall have power to adopt
ordinances, not in conflict with this charter or prohibited by the general
laws of the Commonwealth, for the preservation of the safety, health,
peace, good order, comfort, convenience, morals and welfare of its inhabit-
ants. Among such powers, but not in limitation thereof, the city shall
have power:

(a) To provide for the prevention of vice, immorality, vagrancy and
drunkenness; prevention and quelling of riots, disturbances and disorderly
assemblages; suppression of houses of ill-fame and gambling places and
gambling devices of all kinds; restraint of mendicants; prevention of
lewd and disorderly conduct or exhibitions; and prevention of conduct in
the streets dangerous or annoying to the public.

(b) To regulate the construction, maintenance, repair and demolition
of buildings and other structures and the plumbing, electrical, heating,
elevator, escalator, boiler, unfired pressure vessel, and air conditioning
installations therein, for the purpose of preventing fire and other dangers
to life and health; to establish fire zones and to prohibit the construction
of wooden buildings and wooden repairs and additions to buildings.

(c) To provide for the protection of the city’s property, real and
personal, the prevention of the pollution of the city’s water supply, and
the regulation of the use of parks, playgrounds, playfields, recreational
facilities, landings, docks, wharves, canals, airports and other public prop-
erty, whether located within or without the city. For the purpose of
enforcing such regulations all city property wherever located shall be
under the police jurisdiction of the city. Any member of the police force
of the city or employee thereof appointed as a special policeman shall have
power to make arrests for violation of any ordinance, rule or regulation
adopted pursuant to this section and the civil and police court shall have
jurisdiction in all cases arising thereunder.

To grant or authorize the issuance of permits under such terms
and conditions as the council may impose for the use of streets, alleys and
other public places of the city by railroads, street railways, buses, taxi-
cabs and other vehicles for hire; prescribe the location in, under or over,
and grant permits for the use of, streets, alleys, and other public places
for the maintenance and operation of tracks, poles, wires, cables, pipes,
conduits, bridges, subways, vaults, areas, parking places, bus stops, and
cellars; require tracks, poles, wires, cables, pipes, conduits and bridges to
be altered, removed or relocated either permanently or temporarily; charge
and collect compensation for the privileges so granted; and prohibit such
use of the streets, alleys and other public places of the city, and no such
use shall be made of the streets, alleys or other public places of the city
without the consent of the council.

(e) To prevent any obstruction of or encroachment over, under or
in any street, alley, sidewalk or other public place; provide penalties for
maintaining any such obstruction or encroachment; remove the same and
charge the cost thereof to the owner or owners, occupant or occupants of
the property so obstructing or encroaching, and collect the sum charged in
any manner provided by law for the collection of taxes; require the owner
or owners or the occupant or occupants of the property, so obstructing or
encroaching to remove the same; pending such removal charge the owner
or owners of the property so obstructing or encroaching compensation
for the use of such portion of the street, alley, sidewalk or other public
place obstructed or encroached upon the equivalent of what would be the
tax upon the land so occupied if it were owned by the owner or owners of
the property so obstructing or encroaching, and, if such removal shall not
be made within the time ordered, impose penalties for each and every day
that such obstruction or encroachment is allowed to continue thereafter;
authorize encroachments upon streets, alleys, sidewalks or other public
places, subject to such terms and conditions as the council may prescribe,
but such authorization shall not relieve the owner or owners, occupant or
occupants of the property encroaching, of any liability for negligence on
account of such encroachment; and recover possession of any street, alley,
sidewalk or other public place or any other property of the city by suit or
action in ejectment.

(f) To prescribe the route and grade of any railroad laid in the city,
regulate the operation of locomotives and cars, and exclude such locomo-
tives and cars from the city provided no contract between the city and
une corporation operating such locomotives or cars is violated by such
action.

(zg) To regulate the operation of motor and other vehicles and exer-
cise control over traffic in the streets of the city and provide penalties for
the violation of such regulations, provided that ordinances or administra-
tive regulations adopted by virtue of this subsection shall not be incon-
sistent with the provisions of the motor vehicle code of Virginia. All fines
imposed for the violation of such ordinances and regulations shall be paid
into the city treasury.

(h) To regulate, in the interest of public health, the production,
preparation, distribution, sale and possession of milk, other beverages and
foods for human consumption, and the places in which they are produced,
prepared, distributed, sold, served or stored; regulate the construction,
installation, maintenance and condition of all water and sewer pipes, con-
nections, toilets, water closets and plumbing fixtures of all kinds; regulate
the construction and use of septic tanks and dry closets, where sewers are
not available, and the sanitation of swimming pools and lakes; provide for
the removal of night soil, and charge and collect compensation for the
removal thereof; compel the use of sewers, the connection of abutting
premises therewith, and the installation in such premises of suitable sani-
tary facilities; regulate or prohibit connections to and use of sewers; pro-
vide for the quarantine of any person afflicted with a contagious or infec-
tious disease, and for the removal of such person to a hospital or ward
specially designated for contagious or infectious diseases; inspect and pre-
scribe reasonable rules and regulations, in the interest of public health,
with respect to private hospitals, sanitoria, convalescent homes, clinics
and other private institutions, homes and facilities for the care of the sick,
of children, the aged and the destitute; provide and maintain hospitals
and compel the removal of patients to the same; require the registration
of births in the city; and make and enforce all regulations necessary to
preserve and promote public health and sanitation and protect the inhab-
itants of the city from contagious, infectious or other diseases.

(i) To regulate cemeteries and burials therein, prescribe the records
to be kept by the owners of such cemeteries, prohibit all burials except
in a public burying ground, and to prohibit burial of the dead within the
city limits.

(j) To regulate or prohibit the exercise of any dangerous, offensive
or unhealthful business, trade or employment, and the transportation of
any offensive or dangerous substance.

(k) To regulate the light, ventilation, sanitation and use and occu-
pancy of buildings heretofore or hereafter constructed, altered, remodeled
or improved, and the sanitation of the premises surrounding the same.

(1) To regulate the emission of smoke, the construction, installation
and maintenance of fuel burning equipment, and the methods of firing and
stoking furnaces and boilers.

(m) To compel the removal of weeds from private and public prop-
erty and snow from sidewalks; to compel the covering or removal of
offensive, unwholesome, unsanitary or unhealthful substances allowed to
accumulate in or on any place or premises; to require the filling in to the
street level of the portion of any lot adjacent to a street where the differ-
ence in level between the lot and the street constitutes a danger to life
and limb; to compel the raising or draining of grounds subject to be cov-
ered by stagnant water; to require the razing or repair of all unsafe,
dangerous or unsanitary public or private buildings, walls or structures
which constitute a menace to the health and safety of the occupants there-
of or the public; to compel the abatement of smoke and dust and the elimi-
nation of unnecessary noise; to regulate or prevent slaughter houses or
other offensive business within the city; to regulate the transportation of
articles through the streets; to provide means for and to regulate the
cleaning of all dry closets and to assess against the owner or occupant of
the premises where same is located a reasonable charge therefor, which
shall be collected as other city taxes; and to compel the abatement or
removal of any and all other nuisances whatsoever within the city or upon
property owned by the city beyond its limits. If after such reasonable
notice as the council may prescribe by ordinance the owner or owners,
occupant or occupants of the property or premises affected by the provi-
sions of this subsection shall fail to abate or obviate the condition or
huisance, the city may do so and charge and collect the cost thereof from
the owner or owners, occupant or occupants of the property affected in
any manner provided by law for the collection of taxes. There shall be a
hen for said cost upon the real estate from which the nuisance was abated
or removed by the city, the lien to continue until actual payment of such
cost shall have been made to the city.

(n) To regulate or prohibit the making of fires in the streets, alleys
and other public places in the city and to regulate the making of fires on
private property.

(o) To regulate or prohibit the manufacture, storage, transportation,
possession and use of explosive or inflammable substances and the use and
exhibition of fireworks and discharge of firearms.

(p) To regulate or prohibit the running at large and the keeping of
animals and fowl and provide for the impounding and confiscation of any
such animal or fowl] found at large or kept in violation of such regulations.

(q) To prevent cruelty to and abuse of animals and the driving of
horses and other animals at improper speeds.

(r) To regulate the sale of goods, wares or merchandise at auction;
regulate the conduct of and prescribe the number of pawn shops and
dealers in second-hand goods, wares and merchandise; regulate or prohibit
the peddling or hawking of any article for sale on the streets of the city;
prevent fraud or deceit in the sale of goods, wares and merchandise; regu-
late junk dealers; require the weighing, measuring, gauging and inspection
of goods, wares and merchandise offered for sale; require weights and
measures to be sealed and subject to inspection; and provide for the ap-
pointment of a sealer and one or more weighmasters who shall perform
such duties and functions as may be prescribed by ordinance.

(s) To establish markets in the city and regulate the same and to make
and enforce regulations regarding the keeping and sale of fresh meat, eggs,
vegetables and other perishable groceries.

(t) To regulate livery stables, garages, gasoline filling stations, thea-
trical performances or other public shows or exhibitions, the hiring or use
for pay of carriages, automobiles and other vehicles, billiard parlors, bowl-
ing alleys, pistol galleries, and to grant or refuse licenses to these and simi-
lar occupations and employments as may be deemed proper.

(u) To require a permit for the removal of household goods and
oe from a residence in the City of Alexandria to a place outside said
ci

(v) To provide a complete building code for the city, and to provide
setback lines on the streets beyond which no building may be constructed,
and to provide for a city planning commission and define its powers, subject
to the limitations imposed in Chapter 9 of this charter.

(w) To adopt plans and adopt and modify the official map of the
city; divide the city into land use zones in accordance with the provisions
of Chapter 9 of this charter; regulate and restrict the height and number
of stories of buildings and other structures, the size of yards and courts,
the density of populations, and the location and use of buildings for trade,
industry, business, residence or other purposes; provide for safe and
sanitary housing accommodation for families of low income; create a
housing authority; adopt, modify, and carry out plans proposed by the
planning commission for the clearance of slum districts and rehabilitation
of blighted areas; adopt, modify and carry out plans proposed by the plan-
ning commission for replanning, improvement and redevelopment of neigh-
borhoods and for the replanning, reconstruction or redevelopment of any
area er district which may have been destroyed in whole or in part by

isaster.

§ 4.08. Assessment and Equalization.

(a) The city manager shall provide for the annual assessment and
equalization of assessments of real estate for local taxation, and to that
end may establish a city real estate assessment office and appoint an
assessor to assess such real estate for taxation and to equalize such
assessments.

(b) The term of office, duties, compensation, clerical assistance and
allowances shall be as determined by the Council.

(c) All duties imposed and all powers conferred by law on the Com-
missioner of the Revenue with respect to the assessment of real estate
shall be transferred to the assessor appointed pursuant hereto, except
that the Commissioner of the Revenue shall continue to prepare the land
book and make disposition of the copies thereof as required by law. The
land book shall be prepared by the Commissioner of the Revenue on the
basis of the assessments made by the assessor and certified to him. Trans-
fers shall be verified by the Commissioner of the Revenue.

(d) All real estate shall be assessed at its fair market value as of
January first of each year by such assessor, and taxes for each year on
such real estate shall be extended by the Commissioner of the Revenue
on the basis of the last assessment made prior to such year, subject to
such changes as may have been lawfully made.

(e) Notwithstanding any of the provisions of §§ 58-895 and 58-899
to 58-901, inclusive, of the Code of Virginia, the corporation court of said
city or the judge thereof in vacation shall, annually, appoint for the city
a board of review of real estate assessments, to be composed of three
members, who shall be freeholders of said city. The terms of such mem-
bers shall commence on their appointment and shall expire on the thirtieth
day of November of the year in which they are appointed unless such
terms are extended. Such court or the judge thereof in vacation may
extend the terms of the members of the said board of review and shall
fill any vacancy therein for the unexpired term. The members of the said
board shall receive per diem compensation for the time actually engaged
in the duties of the board, to be fixed by the council of said city, and to
be paid out of the treasury of said city, provided, however, that the
council of said city may limit the per diem compensation to such number
of days as, in its judgment, is sufficient for the completion of the work of
the board.

Such board of review shall have and may exercise the power to revise,
correct and amend any assessments of real estate made by said assessor
in the year in which they serve, and to that end shall have all the powers
conferred upon boards of equalization by §§ 58-903 to 58-912, inclusive,
of the Code of Virginia. Notwithstanding any provision of said sections,
however, the board of review may adopt any regulations providing for
the oral presentation, without formal petitions or other pleadings of re-
quests for review, and looking to the further facilitation and simplification
of proceedings before the board.

Any person of said city aggrieved by any assessment made by said
assessor or board of review may apply for relief in the manner provided
by §§ 58-1145 to 58-1151, inclusive, of the Code of Virginia, provided,
however, that no person aggrieved by any assessment made by the assessor
may apply for or be entitled to relief pursuant to said sections of the Code
of Virginia until the assessment complained of has first been reviewed by
and acted upon by the board of review.

(f) This law shall not apply to the assessment of any real estate
assessable under the law by the State Corporation Commission.

(g) All acts and parts of acts relating to the assessment of real
estate in cities not in conflict with the provisions hereof shall apply to the
assessments made hereunder.

§ 5.28. Deputy city treasurer—tThe city treasurer shall have the
power to appoint and remove a deputy city treasurer. The deputy city
treasurer shall have such powers and duties as the city treasurer may
lawfully authorize him to perform. The deputy city treasurer shall also
have the power to authenticate city bonds by manual signature when the
city council by resolution shall so determine.

_ § 6.07. Appropriation and additional tax ordinances.—At the same
time that he submits the general fund budget the city manager may intro-
duce in the council a general appropriation ordinance. The appropriation
ordinance shall be based on the general fund budget but need not be itemized
further than by departments and the major operating units thereof, and by
courts, bureaus, boards, commissions, offices and agencies submitting
separate budget estimates, and by the principal object of expenditure.
At the same time the city manager shall also introduce any * proposals for
altering the tax rate on real estate and personal property or other proposals
for levying a new tax or altering the rate of any other tax necessary to
balance the general fund budget as hereinbefore provided. New ordinances
altering the tax rate or levying a new tax may, however, be introduced
and passed at any other time of the year. The hearing on the budget plan
as a whole, as provided in this section shall constitute the hearing on all
ordinances referred to in this subsection.

Form of bonds.—Al]l bonds issued pursuant to this charter
shall be paid in consecutive annual instalments, no one of which shall be
more than fifty per centum in excess of the smallest prior instalment. The
first annual instalment of any issue or of any block or series of bonds
shall be payable not later than * two years from the date of sale of such
issue or block or series thereof. Bonds shall be authenticated by the manual
signature of the City Treasurer or the deputy City Treasurer, as the city
council by resolution shall detcrmine, and shall bear the facsimile signature
of the mayor and a facsimile of the seal of the city attested by the facsimile
signature of the city clerk. Should interest payments on such bonds be
evidenced by coupons attached thereto, such coupons shall be authenticated
by the facsimile * signature of the mayor. *

§ 9.11. Duties of the city planning commission with relation to
zoning.—It shall be the duty of the city planning commission to prepare
and submit to the council a comprehensive zoning plan, as referred to in
§ 9.09 of this chapter, and from time to time, at intervals not exceeding
two years, prepare and submit such changes in or revisions of the said
plan as changing conditions may make necessary. The provisions of
§§ 9.06 and 9.13 shall apply to comprehensive zoning when the council
adopts comprehensive zoning changes or revisions; provided, however, that
said §§ 9.06 and 9.18 shall not apply to city-owned property.

§ 9.12. Adoption and amendment of regulations and restrictions and
determination of zone boundaries.—Subject to the other provisions of
this chapter the council shall have power by ordinance to adopt the
regulations and restrictions hereinbefore described and determine the
boundaries of the zones in which they shall apply, provide for their en-
forcement, and from time to time amend, supplement or repeal the same.
The council shall also have authority to provide for the collection of fees
to cover costs involved in the consideration of any application for amend-
ment, supplement or repeal of any such regulation, restriction or deter-
mination of boundaries, to be paid to the city treasurer by the applicant
upon filing such request. No ordinance to adopt such regulations and
restrictions shall be enacted until the application or motion for such
change has been referred to the city planning commission and until after
a public hearing in relation thereto and has been approved or rejected
by it, and until after a public hearing in relation thereto has been held
by the council, provided that such public hearings shall not be held more
frequently than once every three months, at which time the parties in
interest shall have opportunity to be heard; provided, however, that more
frequent rezoning ordinances may be enacted under the emergency ordi-
nance provision of this charter. At least fifteen days’ notice of the time
and place of any such hearing before the council shall be given by pub-
lication thereof in a daily newspaper of general circulation published ir
the city.

The council may approve or reject recommendations of the planning
commission subject to the provisions of § 9.06 of this chapter. It may alsc
refer the matter to the commission for further study. The commissior
shall act on such referral within fifteen days and re-submit its reviewec
recommendations to council. If adopted by a vote of two-thirds of the
entire membership of the commission at the referral meetings, such
recommendations may be modified only by a three-fourths vote of all of
the members of the council. If the commission fails to act within the
prescribed period or by a two-thirds vote, the council may adopt said
application or motion for change by a simple majority. The public hearing
on any matter referred by council to the planning commission for further
study may be continued over a period not to exceed thirty days and such
thirty days shall not be considered as a part of the three months time
period heretofore mentioned; except that in the event of an emergency
whereby there is no newspaper of general circulation published in the city,
then such notice may be published in a newspaper of general circulation
in the city. Time, not to exceed thirty days, may be taken to prepare an
appropriate draft of an ordinance or to follow the proper procedure for
the passage of an ordinance and such time shall not be considered any part
of the above mentioned thirty day referral period or the above mentioned
three month time period.

§ 10.02. Filling of council vacancies.—Any vacancy in the member-
ship of the council, from whatever cause, which shall occur on or before
six months prior to the expiration of the term shall be filled by popular
election. In the event of such vacancy, the council shall by resolution certify
that such vacancy exists to the corporation court of the city of Alexandria
or the judge thereof in vacation, and said court or judge thereof in va-
cation shall order a special election to be held to fill such vacancy for the
unexpired term. The election shall be conducted and the results thereof
ascertained in the manner provided by law for the conduct of general
elections and by the regular election officials of the city. Vacancies in the
council occurring within six months of the regular council election shall
* be filled * for the unexpired term by appointment by the senior judge of
the corporation court of the city of Alexandria.

§ 13.08. Alternative Procedures in Condemnation.—The city may, in
exercising the right of eminent domain conferred by the preceding section,
make use of the procedure prescribed by the general law as modified by
said section or may elect to proceed as hereinafter provided. In the latter
event the resolution or ordinance directing the acquisition of any prop-
erty, as set forth in the preceding section, shall provide therein in a lum
sum the total funds necessary to compensate the owners thereof for su
property to be acquired or damaged. Upon the adoption of such resolution
or ordinance the city may file a petition in the clerk’s office of a court
enumerated in the preceding section, having jurisdiction of the subject,
which shall be signed by the city manager and set forth the interest or
estate to be taken in the property and the uses and purposes for which
the property or the interest or estate therein is wanted, or when prop-
erty is not to be taken but is likely to be damaged, the necessity for the
work or improvement which will cause or is likely to cause such damage.
There shall also be filed with the petition a plat of a survey of the prop-
erty with a profile showing cuts and fills, trestles and bridges, or other
contemplated structures if any, and a description of the property which,
or an interest or estate in which, is sought to be taken or likely to be
damaged and a memorandum showing names and residences of the owners
of the property, if known, and showing also the quantity or property
which, or an interest or estate in which, is sought to be taken or which
will be or is likely to be damaged. There shall be filed also with said peti-
tion a notice directed to the owners of the property, if known, copies of
which shall be served on such owners or tenants of the freehold of such
property, if known. If the owner or tenant of the freehold be unknown or
a nonresident of the state or cannot with reasonable diligence be found
in the state, or if the residence of the owner or tenant be unknown, he
may be proceeded against by order of publication which order, however,
need not be published more than once a week for two successive w
and shall be posted at a main entrance to the courthouse. The publication
shall in all other respects conform to §§ 8-71, 8-72, and 8-76 of the Code
Oo .

Upon the filing of said petition and the deposit of the funds provided
by the council for the purpose in a bank to the credit of the court in such
proceedings and the filing of a certificate of deposit therefor the interest
or estate of the owner of such property shall terminate and the title to
such property or the interest or estate to be taken in such property shall
be vested absolutely in the city and such owner shall have such interest or
estate in the funds so deposited as he had in the property taken or dam-
aged and all liens by deed of trust, judgment or otherwise upon said prop-
erty or estate shall be transferred to such funds and the city shall have
the right to enter upon and take possession of such property for its uses
and purposes and to construct its works or improvements. The clerk of
the court in which such proceeding is instituted shall make and certify a
copy of the petition, exhibits filed therewith, and orders, and deliver or
transmit the same to the clerk of the court in which deeds are admitted
to record, who shall record the same in his deed book and index them in
the name of the person or persons who had the property before and in the
name of the city, for which he shall receive the same fees prescribed for
recording a deed, which shall be paid by the city.

If the city and the owner of property so taken or damaged agree upon
compensation therefor, upon filing such agreement in writing in the clerk’s
office of such court the court or judge thereof in vacation shall make such
distribution of such funds as to it may seem right, having due regard to
the interest of all persons therein whether such interest be vested, con-
tingent or otherwise, and to enable the court or judge to make a proper
distribution of such money it may in its discretion direct inquiries to be
taken by a special commissioner in order to ascertain what persons are
entitled to such funds and in what proportions and may direct what
notice shall be given of the making of such inquiries by such special
commissioner.

If the city and the owner cannot agree upon the compensation for the
property taken or damaged, if any, upon the filing of a memorandum in
the clerk’s office of said court to that effect, signed by either the city or
the owner, the court shall appoint commissioners provided for in § * 25-
46.20 of the Code of 1950 as amended, or as provided for in § 13.02, and
all proceedings thereafter shall be had as provided in §§ * 25-46.17 to 25-
46.84, inclusive, of the Code of 1950 as amended insofar as they are then
applicable and are not inconsistent with the provisions of this and the
preceding section, and the court shall order the deposit in bank to the
credit of the court of such additional funds as appear to be necessary to
cover the award of the commissioners or shall order the return to the city
of such funds deposited that are not necessary to compensate such owners
for property taken or damaged. The commissioners so appointed shall not
consider improvements placed upon the property by the city subsequent to
its taking nor the value thereof nor the enhancement of the value of said
property by said improvements in making their award.

§ 14.038. Powers and duties.—The city collector shall have the fol-
lowing powers and shall be charged with the duties and functions as
ollows:

(a) The collection of all taxes, special assessments, license fees and
other revenues of the city or for whose collection the city is responsible
and receive all deposits and all other money receivable by the city from
whatsoever source.

(b) To place in the custody of the City Treasurer all public funds
belonging to or under the control of the city.

(c) To perform such functions and powers and to carry out all pro-
visions as are prescribed for such office in §§ 5.19 through 5.27, both in-
clusive.

(ad) To appoint and remove such assistant city collectors and other
employees as shall be authorized by the council, subject to the provisions
of chapter 8 of this charter, and authorize the assistant city collectors or
eid employees to perform any of the duties imposed upon them in this
er.

§ 15.10. School board and school districts.—* Beginning July 1, 1964
and continuing thereafter the school board of the city of Alexandria shall
consist of * nine trustees to be selected by the city council from the city at
large and the city shall constitute a single school district. The trustees of
the school board in office on the effective date of the passage of this section
shall continue in office for the terms for which they were selected and
thereafter selection of these offices shall be for three year terms. The city
counci shall appoint three new trustees from the city at large whose terms
shall begin July 1, 1964, one to serve until June 80, 1965, one to serve until
June 80, 1966, and one to serve until June 80, 1967, and thereafter all
selections shall be for three years and from the city at large. In all other
applicable respects the provisions of the general laws of the Common-
wealth shall apply with respect to the appointment of school trustees.