Chap. 340.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act approved March 2
1804, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 50, 1875, en-
titled an act to incorporate the town of Falls Chureh, in the county of Fairfax,
as amended by an act approved February 27, 1870, entitled an act to amend and
re-cnaet sections 3, 4, 5 and 6 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of
Falls Chureh, in the county of Fairfax, approved March 30, 1875, and as further
amended by an act approved March 4, 1890, entitled an act to amend section 7
of chapter 316 of the acts of assembly, session 1874-75, entitled an act to ineor-
porate the town of Falls Church, in the county of Fairfax.

Approved February 14, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
four of an act approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-
four, entitled an act to amend and. re- ‘enact. an act approved March
thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, entitled an act to incor-
porate the town of Falls Church, in the county of Fairfax, as amended
by an act approved February twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and
seventy-nine, entitled an act to amend and re-enact the third, fourth,
fifth, and sixth sections of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town
of Falls Church, in the county of Fairfax, approved March thirtieth,
eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and as further amended by an act
approved March fourth. eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled an act to
amend section seven, chapter three hundred and sixtcen of the acts of
assembly, session of eighteen hundred and seventy-four and eighteen hun-
dred and seventy-five, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Falls
Church, in the county of Fairfax, be, and the same is, amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows :

§ 4. The council shall have power to define and mark the boundaries
of the streets, lay out new streets, alleys, and sidewalks ; to provide for
the surveying, grading, paving, repairing, drainage, laying out, extend-
ing, widening, opening, closing, straightening or re-locating any street,
sidewalk, alley, or sewer in said town, and may condemn or purchase
the right of way for any street, alley, or sewer which they may determine
should be opened for the public good ; to provide for the removal of
nuisances ; for the removal of obstructions of streets, lanes, and alleys ;
for the establishment of building lines and of building regulations ; to
regulate or prohibit animals from running at large; to license the
ownership of dogs; to impose a license-tax on the owners of dogs, not
to exceed one dollar for males and five dollars for females, and to make
provision for the killing of dogs whose owners fail to procure license and
pay the said tax ; to provide for order and quiet and the observance of
the Sabbath; to provide and protect shade trees; to establish a fire
department with suitable apparatus; to divide the corporation into
wards ; to regulate in reference to the public health; to exercise the
powers of road commissioners over the roads and streets of the corpora-
tion ; to have control of all property belonging to the corporation ; to
pass ordinances to carry into effect the objects of this corporation, and
punish the violation thereof by fine and imprisonment; to, whenever
they may be satisfied that the public health, comfort, or convenience
requires it, construct sidewalks, curbings, gutters, and sewers along
the streets, avenues, roads, and alleys of said town, charging
one-half the cost of such construction upon each tract or piece
of abutting property to be benefited thereby in proportion that the num-
ber of front feet of each such piece or tract shall bear to the whole length
of said sidewalk, curbing, guttering, and sewering, and shall enforce the
collection of such special assessments in the same manner as the collec-
tion of general taxes may be enforced, and such other powers contained
in section one thousand and thirty-eight of the code of Virginia as are
not herein enumerated. For the purpose of condemning land for street
purposes the council shall have the jurisdiction and authority to exercise
it of courts under chapter forty-three of the code of Virginia, in the
matter of the establishment and alteration of roads.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.