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 | 1897/1898 |
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Law Number | 663 |
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Law Body
Chap. 663.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 14 of the charter of the town
of Hampton.
Approved March 2, 1898.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
fourteen of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Hampton, in
Elizabeth City county, Virginia, as amended by an act approved February
twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and by an act approved
February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, be amended
and re-enacted to read as follows:
§ 14. That in addition to the powers conferred by section one thou-
sand and thirty-eight of chapter forty-four of the code of Virginia of
eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, the council of the town of Hamp-
ton shall have power to open or extend, widen or narrow, graduate, curb
and pave the strects, sidewalks and public alleys in the said town, and
to make such ordinances, by-laws, orders and regulations 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 payment of said fines and taxes, where
said fines and taxes cannot be otherwise collected. And the said coun-
cil, in addition to the powers conferred upon it by section one thousand
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 o
dealer in or vender of what are generally known as ‘‘ bankrupt’ ’ or ‘‘ fire
sale’’ goods, before such person shall be permitted to pursue such busi
ness or occupation within the corporate limits of the said town; and shal
have the power to require payment for a license for peddling within the
said town at such charge and under such penalty as the council may
prescribe; and may pass any ordinances and regulations concerning ped:
dling which do not conflict with the constitution and laws of this state o:
with those of the United States, and for the exercise of such privilege:
the said council may impose such tax as to it may seem just and reason
able.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.