CHAPTER 21

An Act to amend and reenact § 4a of Chapter 412 of the Acts of Assembly
of 1922, approved March 24, 1922, which provided a charter for the
Town of Woodstock, the amended section relating to the composition
and election of the governing body. rH 61]

Approved February 12, 1962

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 4a of Chapter 412 of the Acts of Assembly of 1922, approved
March 24, 1922, be amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 4a. A mayor and six councilmen, * all of whom shall be electors of
the town, shall be elected * at the regular municipal election on the second
Tuesday in June, nineteen hundred sixty-two. * The mayor shall be elected
for a term of four years. The three members receiving the greatest number
of votes in said election shall serve as members of the council for terms
of four years each. The remaining three members shall serve for terms of
two years each. At the regular municipal election to be held on the second
Tuesday in June, nineteen hundred sixty-four, and every two years there-
after, three councilmen shall be elected for terms of four years each.
Terms of office shall begin on the first day of September next following
their election. Each councilman and the mayor elected as hereinabove
provided shall serve for the term stated or until his successor has been
elected and qualified. The council shall be a continuing body, and no
measure pending before such body shall abate or be discontinued by reason
of expiration of term of office or removal of any of its members. Any
vacancy in the council shall be filled within thirty days, for the unexpired
term, by a majority vote of the remaining members; provided, that tf
the term of office to be filled does not expire for two years or more after
the next regular election for councilmen, following such vacancy and such
vacancy occurs in time to permit it, then the council shall fill such vacancy
only for the period then remaining until such election, and a qualified
person shall then be elected by the qualified voters and shall from and
after the date of his election and qualification succeed such appointee and
serve the unexpired term. The number of candidates for council equal
to the number of vacancies to be filled for full terms receiving the highest
number of votes shall be entitled to such full terms and the candidate
receiving the next highest number of votes shall be entitled to the un-
expired term caused by such vacancy.

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