Chap. 412.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act
to amend and re-enact section 10 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the
town of Hampton in Elizabeth City county, Virginia, approved May 23, 1881,
and to further amend and re-enact the said act by the adding of two ‘addi-
tional sections thereto, to be known as sections 14 and 15 respectively, and
to further amend and re-enact said act by changing the numbers of sections
14 and 15 in said act to 16 and 17 respectively, approved February 29, 1892.

Approved February 24, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion two of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section ten
of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Hampton, in
Elizabeth City county, Virginia, approved May twenty-third, eigh-
teen hundred and eighty-one, and to further amend and re-enact the
said act by the adding of two additional sections thereto, to be
known as sections fourteen and fifteen, respectively, and to further
amend and re-enact said act by changing the numbers of sections
fourteen and fifteen in said act to sixteen and seventeen, respec-
tively, approved February twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and nine-
ty-two, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 2. And be it further enacted by the general assembly of Vir-
ginia, That the said act entitled an act to incorporate the town of
Hampton, in Elizabeth City county, Virginia, be further amended
and re-enacted by adding thereto the two following sections, to be
known, respectively, as fourteen and fifteen, which said sections
shall be and become a part of said act as amended by this act, as
follows:

§ 14. That in addition to the powers conferred by section ten hun-
dred and thirty-eight of chapter forty-four of the code of Virginia
of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, the council of the town of
Hampton shall have power to open or extend, widen or narrow,
graduate, curb, and pave the streets, sidewalks and public alleys in
said town, and to make such ordinances, by-laws, orders and regu-
lations as it may deem. necessary to prevent hogs, dogs and other
animals from running at large in the limits of the town, and may
subject the owners thereof to such fines, regulations and taxes as the
council may deem proper, and may confiscate and kill said dogs, and
sell the other of said animals at public auction to enforce the pay-
ment of said fine and taxes where said fines and taxes cannot other-
wise be collected. And the said council, in addition to the powers
conferred upon it by section ten hundred and forty-two of chapter
forty-four of the code of Virginia, edition of eighteen hundred and
eighty-seven, shall have power to require a license to be taken out
by any person engaged in the business or occupation of dealer in or
vender of what are generally known as bankrupt or fire-sale goods
before such person shall be permitted to pursue such business or
occupation within the corporate limits of said town; and for the
exercise of such privilege the said council may impose such tax as
to it may seem just and reasonable.

§ 15. That whenever any sidewalk or footway along any street or
public alley is to be curhed and paved, or is required to be repaved,
it shall be done at the cost of the owner of the lot along the front or
side or sides of which such sidewalk or footway extends. In the
construction of the proposed: curbing and sidewalks or footways, or
repairs to the same, the council shall first require the abutting own-
ers to construct said sidewalks or footways, or repairs thereto,
according to plans and specifications adopted by the council, in
which case notice in writing shall be served upon said abutting
owners to make said sidewalks or footways, or repairs thereto,
within a reasonable time, to be designated in said notice. Such
notice shall be served as notices are required to be served by law,
and if, after the service of such notice, any abutting owner shall
fail, according to the terms of such notice, to make said sidewalks
or footways, or repairs thereto, then the council may proceed to con-
struct such sidewalk or footway, or make said repairs, at the cost of
the abutting owner, and levy an assessment against the abutting
property for the actual cost thereof; and said assessment shall be a
lien upon the said abutting property and the rents thereof, which
lien may be enforced as liens on real estate for town taxes are
enforced. In all cases where a lessee or tenant shall pay the costs
of any such curbing or pavement or repairs along the front or side
or sides of the lot by him occupied, for which lot, by a contract with
his lessor or landlord, he shall be bound to pay rent, the amount of
any such costs paid by him, or collected from him, or made out of
hig property, shall be a good and valid set-off against so much of the
rent due or accruing to his lessor or landlord as may have been s0
paid by, collected from, or made out of said tenant or lessee.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.