CHAPTER 3

An Act to amend and reenact § 8 of Chapter 856 of the Acts of Assembly
of 1948, approved March 81, 1948, which provided a charter for the
town of Grottoes, the section relating to the mayor and councilmen
of the town.

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Approved February 8, 1966

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 3 of Chapter 356 of the Acts of Assembly of 1948, approved
March 31, 1948, be amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 3. (a) * On the second Tuesday in June nineteen hundred *
sirty-sir, * there shall be elected * a mayor and six councilmen from the
town at large, whose * terms * of office shall begin on the first day of
September * following * such election, * and who shall serve until * their
successors shall * be duly elected and * shall qualify.

The mayor shall be elected for a term of two years. The three counctl-
men receiving the greatest number of votes in said election shall serve for
terms of four years each. The remaining three councilmen shall serve for
terms of two years each. After the election in June nineteen hundred sixty-
siz, all councilmen shall be elected for terms of four years to fill vacancies
caused by the exptration of terms of office.

The council shall be a continuing body, and no measure pending before
soch body shall abate or be discontinued by reason of the expiration of the
term of office of the counctlmen, or * any * member. Vacancies in the
counci] shal] be filled for the unexpired term by a majority vote of the

ining members.

The present mayor and councilmen shall continue in office until the
expiration of the terms for which they were respectively elected.

(b) The council shall, by ordinance, fix the time for their regular
meetings. Special meetings shall be called by the clerk of the council upon
request of the mayor or any three councilmen; reasonable notice of each
special meeting shall be given each member of the council; no business
shall be transacted at a specia] meeting except that for which the special
meeting is called, unless the council be unanimous.

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