CHAPTER 459

An Act to amend Chapter 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, by adding thereto a section
numbered 4(a) empowering the council to provide by ordinance that
certain officers and employees of the city, as a condition of holding
office or employment, shall reside in the city. tH 324]

Approved March 31, 1962

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That Chapter 34, of the Acts of Assembly of nineteen hundred eighteen,
approved February seven, nineteen hundred eighteen, be amended by
adding thereto a section numbered 4(a) as follows:

§ 4(a). Council may require certain officers and employees to reside
in the city—Notwithstanding the authority granted the civil service
commission by paragraph 5 of § 112 of this charter to establish resident
requirements for candidates and eligibles, the council shall have the power
to provide by ordinance that the regular, permanent officers and employees
of the city in the classified and unclassified services, or any of them, as a
condition of holding office or employment, shall reside in the city during
their continuance in office or employment, and the council shall have the
power to make such exceptions to and to impose such conditions upon any
resident requirement prescribed pursuant hereto as it deems to be in the
best interest of the city; provided, however, that if the council adopts an
ordinance providing for such a resident requirement as is authorized
herein the regular, permanent officers and employees of the city who are
in office or employment on the effective date of this act and who also
reside outside of the city in homes owned by them shall not be affected by
the terms of any such ordinance so long as they continue to reside in their
present homes.

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