Chap. 434.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5 and 8 of the charter of the
city of Richmond, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 29,
1871, relating to the election of municipal officers.

Approved December 12, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
five and eight of the charter of the city of Richmond, as amended by an
act approved March twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, en-
titled “an act to amend and re-enact sections five and fourteen of an act
entitled an act providing a charter for the city of Richmond, approved
May twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy, as amended by an act
approved July eleventh, cightcen hundred and seventy,” be amended and
re-ordained so as to read as follows:

§ 5. The mayor and members of the board of aldermen and of the com-
mon council of the city of Richmond shall be elected on the second Tues-
day in June immediately preceding the expiration of the terms of office
of their predecessors, and their terms of office shall begin on the first day
of September succeeding: all other elective officers of the city of Rich-
mond shall be elected on Tuesday after the first Monday in November,
and their terms of office shall begin on the first day of January succeed-
ing, except the terms of oflice of the clerks of the corporation courts of
the city of Richmond shall begin coincidently with those of the judges of
their said courts. The term of the mayor and the terms of the board of
aldermen and of the common council now in office shall continue until
September first, nineteen hundred and four. The term of office of the
members of the board of aldermen and the term of the members of the
common council shall be for two years: provided, that in the.event of the
adoption of any resolution or ordinance of the council or act of the gen-
eral assembly of Virginia heretofore or hereafter passed changing the
boundary of any ward or wards or establishing a new ward out of the ter-
ritory of another ward or wards by reason of which any member of either
branch of the city council, any fire commissioner, any police commis-
sioner, any magistrate or any other citv officer, who is required to reside
in the ward from which he is elected, becomes a resident of a new ward
or of some other ward than that from which he was elected, then, in that
event, such officer shall continue in office to the end of the full term for
which he was elected just as if there had been no change in the wards of
the city, but the terms of office of all officers, whose residence is not
changed by the creation of a new ward, or change of the boundaries of
the old wards, shall not be affected, but such term or terms shall continue,
expire, and be filled as if there had been no creation of new wards or
change of boundaries of old wards. ;

§ 8. The mayor shall be elected by the qualified voters of the city of
Richmond for a term of four years and until his successor shall be elected
and qualify. His salary shall be fixed by the city council, payable at
stated periods, and he shall receive no other compensation or emolument
whatsoever; and no regulations diminishing such compensation, after it
has been once fixed, shall be made to take effect until after the expira-
tion of the term for which the mayor, then in office, shall have been
elected. The salary of the mayor, when fixed, shall so continue until
changed by the city council as aforesaid.

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