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 | 1891/1892 |
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Law Number | 205 |
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CHAP. 205.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5, 6 and 12
of an act entitled an act to extend the boundaries of the city of
Norfolk, approved February 22, 1890.
Approved February 12, 1892.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That sections five, six and twelve of an act approved Feb-
ruary twenty-two, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled
‘an act to extend the boundaries of the city of Norfolk,”
be, and the same are hereby, amended and re-enacted so
as to read as follows:
_ §65. The city shall assess the same license taxes for
doing business of all kinds within the newly-acquired
territory as shall be assessed within the present limits of
the city, but, save such license taxes, the inhabitants of the
territory hereby annexed, and the owners of lands lying
therein, shall not be liable on their real and personal! prop-
erty within the said ward for the period of fifteen years,
from the twenty-second day of February, eighteen hun-
dred and ninety, for any part of the present debt of the
city of Norfolk nor for the interest thereon; nor shall any
tax be levied therefor, nor shall they have to pay an ad
valorem tax to the city exceeding the rate levied by the
county of Norfolk for general purposes for the year eight-
een hundred and eighty-six—namely, seventy cents on the
one hundred dollars—unless the city shall, upon the
recommendation of the local board of improvement of said
ward, acquire, otherwise than by gift or voluntary grant,
or devise, property, real or personal, for public free school
purposes in said ward, or shall enlarge, or repair existing
public school buildings in said ward ; and the cost thereof,
unless the school-tax as provided in section six of this act
shall be sufficient for that purpose, shall be paid from the
proceeds of the sale of bonds to be issued by the city, in
accordance with section twelve of this act: and unless,
further, the city shall, upon petition of a majority of the
property owners on any street in the newly-acquired terri-
tory, approved by the local improvement board thereof,
open, lay off, grade, gutter, curb or pave. sewer, drain, or
otherwise improve such streets, or make any other im-
provement of a permanent character not applicable to the
entire ward, in which case the cost thereof shall be assessed
against the owners of real property which is benefited by
such improvements, as is at present provided by law in
said city; and any part of the cost of the same that the
city may agree to pay shall be paid as is hereinafter pro-
vided for by section twelve of this act. The city shall,
upon a petition of a majority of the property owners on
any street in the newly-acquired territory, extend a water-
main and supply water to the citizens along its line;
then, in addition to the ad valorem tax for general pur-
poses, payable to the city of Norfolk as aforesaid, the same
rate of special water tax shall be assessed on the real and
personal property along the line of such street as may be
assessed upon property within the present limits of the
city of Norfolk during the year for which such assessment
shall be levied; and the same charges shall be made upon
those property owners who shall connect their property
with the said water-main as shall be made upon other
property owners in the city of Norfolk; and the cost of
laying such water-main may be paid by the city, as may
be ordered by the councils on the recommendation of the
local board of improvement of the ward in which such
water-main may be laid, in whole or in part, out of the tax
collected for general purposes from such ward, and any
balance not so paid shall be paid from the proceeds of
bonds to be issued by the city, in accordance with section
twelve of this act. Nothing in this act contained shall be
construed as allowing any portion of the cost of any im-
provement of a permanent character not applicable to the
entire ward in one of said districts, to be paid out of the
taxes collected from it, to be assessed against any of the
persons or property in the other district.
§ 6. All taxes levied and collected upon personal prop-
erty within the limits hereby added to the city of Norfolk,
excepting water tax and license taxes, shall be collected by
the city collector, who shall, after deducting his fees, pay
the same into the treasury of the city, to be set apart asa
special fund for the improvement, protection of schools,
police, and every other expenditure of the said ward from
which it is collected, to be appropriated by the councils,
on the recommendation of a local board of improvement
in the ward, the said board being at present composed of the
five residents of said ward elected by the legally qualified
voters of said ward on the fourth Thursday in May, eighteen
hundred and ninety, who shal! hold office for the term of
two years from and after the first day of July succeeding
their election, and until their successors are elected and
qualified; and the said board thereafter to be composed of
five residents of said ward, to be elected by the legally
qualified voters of said ward on the fourth Thursday in
May, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, to hold office for
the term of two years from the first day of July, eighteen
hundred and ninety-two, and until their successors are elec-
ted and qualified, and biennially thereafter; and all bills
for money spent within said ward shall be certified by the
said local board of improvement before being ordered to be
paid by the councils. All works of internal improvement
within the newly annexed territory shall be under the su-
pervision of the board of street,sewer and drain commission-
ers, a8 provided by law within the present limits of the city.
It shall not be lawful for the councils, during the before-
mentioned period of fifteen years from the twenty-second
day of February, eighteen hundred and ninety, to expend
more money in the ward hereby added to the city of Nor-
folk than shall be collected during the year for general
purposes, as hereinbefore provided, from said ward, unless
the same be an unexpended balance collected during some
previous year, except as provided by section fifth.
§ 12. It shall not be lawful for the city of Norfolk to is-
sue bonds predicated upon or taking into account the as-
sessed value of real and personal property embraced with-
in the newly-acquired territory until the expiration of fif-
teen years from the twenty-second day of February, eigh-
teen hundred and ninety, unless the same shall be issued
by the city to pay for the purchase of property to be used
for public free school purposes in said ward, or to enlarge
or repair existing public free school buildings in said
ward, in accordance with section five of this act, or for
any local improvements of a permanent character made
in accordance with said section five, in which case bonds
shall be issued by the councils of the city of Norfolk for
the city of Norfolk for the amounts necessary to pay for
such public free school property, or such enlarging or re-
pairing of existing public free school buildings and other
local improvements as aforesaid: provided the amount ap-
propriated for such public free school purposes shall not
exceed the sum of fifteen thousand dollars in any one cal-
endar year, beginning with the first day of January; and
the proceeds of said bonds shall be expended in the man-
ner provided by section six of this act for the expenditure
of the taxes collected for general purposes. An account of
bonds issued under this section shall be kept by the board
of sinking fund commissioners of said city, and also by
the city treasurer. The amount necessary to pay the in-
terest on such bonds shall be annually reserved by the
city treasurer out of the taxes collected by the said city
for general purposes from the said territory in which such
improvement shall be made to pay the interest on said
bonds as it becomes due and payable.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.