An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
Volume 1968 Law 99
Volume | 1877/1878 |
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Law Number | 52 |
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Chap. 52.—An ACT to amend and re-enact the 22d, 26th, and 27th
sections of an act entitled an act amending the charter of the town
of Danville, passed March 4th, 1844, and incorporating into one all
acts amendatory thereof, passed December Lith, 1465, and to amend
and re-enact the 7th and &th sections of the act amendatory of the
saine, approved March 25th, 1872.
Approved February 6, 1878.
1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
sections twenty-second, twenty-sixth, and twenty-seventh of
an act entitled an act amending the charter of the town of
Danville, passed March fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-
four, and incorporating into one all acts amendatory thereof,
passed December fiftecnth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five,
and to amend and re enact the seventh and eighth sections
of the act amendatory of the same, approved March twenty-
fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:
§7 and 8. The regular elections for town officers shall be
held on the fourth Thursday in May, at the courthouse of
said town, or at such place or places as the corporation judge
may desiynate. At such elections there shall be elected one
mayor, three justices of the peace, twelve councilmen, one
commonwealth’s attorney for the corporation court, one
clerk, who shall be clerk of both the corporation and circuit
courts, one sergeant, one treasurer, and one commissioner of
the revenue. These officers shall enter upon their duties
upon the first of July, succeeding their election, and shall
hold for the following terms, viz: the mayor for two years,
justices of the peace and councilmen for two years, common-
wealth’s attorney for two years, sergeant for two years, clerk
of the courts for six years, and commissioner of revenue
two years, and treasurer for three years.
§ 22. The council shall have power to purchase, receive,
lease, and hold lands, tenements, goods, and chattels, eithor
in fee simple, or any less estate therein, either for the use of
said town, or in trust for the benefit of any persons or asso-
clations therein; and the same to let, sell or grant, or assign
again; to purchase and hold any quantity of land, outside
of the limits of the corporation, and in the county of Pitt-
sylvania, not exceeding one hundred acres, as may be neces-
sary for the use, convenience, and comfort of the people, and
for a public cemetery, a public park, and a poor-house. Any
land so acquired and bona fide used for such purposes, shall
be subject to the jurisdiction of said council, and the corpo-
ration court of said town, in like manner as if the same were
within the corporate limits of the same, and be free from
state tax. The council shall have power also to erect a town
hall and market-house, and regulate the same; a work-house,
jail, and other buildings deemed necessary and convenient
for said town ; to establish and organize fire companies, and
purchase engines; to prohibit the erection of any buildings,
or any addition to any building, more than ten feet square
and ten feet high, unless the outer walls thereof be made of
brick and mortar, or such material as cannot take fire; and
provide for the removal of any building or addition erected
contrary to such probibition, within the limits of said cor-
poration; and, if at any time it should be deemed advisable
for the better protection from fire, the council may, in their dis-
cretion, select suitable citizens to be members of fire companies,
who, by certificate of the president, ordered by vote of the
council, may be released from serving as a juror or jurors in
the corporation and circuit courts of the town of Danville,
so long as they are bona fide active members of such fire
company; and also, in their discretion, may excuse members
of such fire companies from militia duty, except in the case
of invasion or danger to the state, so that they shall be re-
lieved of the payment of fines for failure to attend the com-
pany and general musters prescribed by law; to regulate and
graduate the streets and alleys of said town, and pave the
same; to have the footways or sidewalks of the town paved
at the expense of the owners or occupiers of the lots or
parts of lots; and in case they or any of them sball neglect
or refuse to pave the same when required, it shall be lawful
for the council to have the same paved, and recover the ex-
pense thereof, for the use of the town, before the mayor or
any justice of the peace of the corporation; and in all cases
where a tenant shall be required to pave in front of the
property in his or her occupation, the expense of pavement
shall be a good offset against so much of the rent as he shall
have paid towards such pavement. The council shall have
power to open and establish new streets and alleys in said
town, whenever it shall think the public convenience re-
quires it; grant or refuse licenses to auctioneers, hawkers,
and pedlers, keepers of bowling alleys, billiard, or bagatelle
tables, or for theatrical performances, or for any other show
or performance to be used or exhibited in said town, or
within one mile thereof; to impose a tax on any such license
in addition to any tax paid to the state, and to adopt, in all
cases of license, such rules and regulations as it may deem
proper; to prevent the practice of running horses, or firing
guns or pistols in said town; to levy a fine on those who
create a nuisance, public or private; to lay and collect taxes
on the real estate in said town in proportion to its value—
such value to be ascertained in such way‘as the council may
prescribe: provided that the same does not exceed one per
centum on each hundred dollars value; to lay and collect
taxes on such other property, professions, and occupations,
as it may deem proper: provided the same does not conflict
with any law of the state or the United States; to tax dogs
in such manner as they may prescribe; to tax occupiers of
houses, and all male persons in the town above the age of
sixteen years; and in order the better to ascertain and deter-
mine what persons are liable to taxation, it is hereby de-
clared that all tithable persons resident in said town on the
first of February, shall be subject to taxation the then cur-
rent year. The council shall also have power to appoint all
officers necessary for conducting the affairs of the corpora-
tion not otherwise provided for in this act; to take from the
treasurer and collector of the corporation taxes, such bonds
With security, in such penalties and with such conditions as
to the council may seem fit, payable to the town of Danville;
and to make such by-laws, rules, and regulations for the
government of said town, as shall not be contrary to the
laws of the United States or of this state, and to enforce all
such by-laws, rules and regulations, by reasonable fines and
penalties, not exceeding, tor any one offence, the sum of fifty
dollars, to be recovered, with costs, before the mayor or any
justice of the peace of said town—such fines to be paid into
the treasury of the said town, and by imprisonment in the cor-
poration jail for a period not exceeding twelve months; and,
in case the person or persons so fined shall have no visible
effects, it shall be lawful to require such offenders to work
out such fines on the public streets, or on other public works,
under the direction of the mayor; and the council is hereby
empowered to establish a chain-gang, as a punishment for
the incorrigibly vicious, which shall make a part of the
police regulations, and be controlled by the chief of police,
under the discretion of the mayor of the town.
§ 26. The collector of taxes of said town may distrain and
sell therefor, in like manner as a sergeant may distrain and
sell for state taxes, and shall have in all other respects, like
power to enforce the collection of the same; and there shall
be alien on real estate in said town for the taxes assessed
thereon from the first day of May of each year in which it
was assessed. The council may require real estate in the
said town delinquent for non-payment of taxes to be sold for
the same, with interest thereon until paid, and such per
centum as it may prescribe for charges, and it may regulate
and prescribe terms on which real estate, so delinquent, may
be redeemed.
§ 27. The sergeant of said corporation may appoint as
many deputies as he may think the business and duties of
his office requires, to be approved by the corporation court.
He shall execute and return all process lawfully directed to
him, and shall moreover be the collector of the state revenue
in said town, and ‘as such, shall have all the powers, and
shall be subject to all the duties and liabilities of a sheriff,
and be entitled to a like compensation for his services therein
as are prescribed in the Code of Virginia. And should the
collector of the taxes of the said ccrporation fail to collect
and pay over the same at the time prescribed by the council
of the said town, he and his securities in the bond, which he
shall have given for that purpose, his and their executors and
administrators, shall be subject to such proceedings, by mo-
tion or otherwise, before the corporation court of said town,
for enforcing the payment over of such taxes, at the suit 0!
said town, as are prescribed by the Code of Virginia tc
enforce the payment of money to the commonwealth.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.