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Volume | 1899/1900 |
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Law Number | 162 |
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Chap. 162.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 17 of the charter of the
city of Portsmouth, approved March 6, 1882, as amended by an act approved
February 23, 1894, and as amended by an act approved January 27, 1898.
Approved January 2, 1900.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
seventeen of the charter of the city of Portsmouth, as provided by an
act of the general assembly, approved March sixth, eighteen hundred
and eighty-two, as amended by act approved February twenty-third.
eighteen hundred and nincty-four, and as amended by an act approved
January twenty-seven, eightcen hundred and ninety-eight, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
§ 17. The council shall have, subject to the provisions herein con-
tained, the control and management of the fiscal and municipal affairs
of the city, and all property, real and personal, belonging exclusively
to said city, a8 now provided by law, and may make such ordinances,
orders and by-laws relating to the same as it shall deem proper and
necessary; but it shall hereafter grant no franchise for a period of more
than twenty-five years, nor shall it subscribe to the capital stock of any
corporation. It shall make no temporary loan or loans, in any fiscal
year, in excess of the city tax levy for that year, nor shall it make any
temporary loans upon the revenue of any current or succeeding year
until all temporary loans upon the revenue of any preceding year shall
have been fully paid. It shall likewise have the power to make such
ordinances, by-laws, orders and regulations as it may deem desirable
to carry out the following powers, which are hereby vested in it:
Markets.
I. To regulate the markets in and for said city; to prescribe the times
and places for holding the same; keep in order suitable buildings there-
for; to adopt and enforce such rules and ordinances respecting said
markets as, in their opinion, the convenience or interest of the inhabi-
tants of said city shall require, and to adopt such rules and ordinances
as may be necessary to regulate or prevent huckstering, forestalling,
and regrating. )
Workhouse, Poorhouse, dc.
II. To erect or provide, in or near the city, suitable workhouses,
houses of correction, or reformation, and houses for the reception and
maintenance of the poor and destitute. They shall possess and exercise
exclusive authoritv over all persons within the limits of the said city
receiving or entitled to the benefits of the poor laws, and to regulate
pauperism within the city; and the council, through the agencies ap-
pointed for the direction and management of the poor of the city, shall
exercise the powers and perform the duties vested by law in overseers
of the poor.
III. To erect and keep in order all public buildings necessary or
proper for said city.
City Prison.
IV. To provide, within said city, a city prison; and said prison may
contain such apartments as shall be necessary or proper for the safe-
keeping of all persons confined therein.
Wharves and Docks.
V. To establish, contract, and keep in order, alter or remove land-
ings, wharves, and docks on lands belonging exclusively to, or which may
hereafter belong exclusively to, said city, and to lay and collect a reason-
able duty on vessels coming to and using the same; to prevent and re-
move all obstructions in and upon such landings, wharves, and docks;
to preserve peace and good order upon the same, and upon all other
wharves and landings in said city.
Streets and Alleys.
VI. To close or extend, widen or narrow, lay out and grade, pave,
and otherwise improve streets and public alleys in the city,and have them
properly lighted and kept in good order; and it may make or construct
sewers or ducts through the streets or public grounds of the city, and
through any place or places whatsoever; it shall have over any street or
alley in the city which has been or may be ceded to the city like authority
as over other streets or alleys; it may build bridges in and culverts under
said streets and alleys, and may prevent or remove any structure, ob-
struction, or encroachment over or under or in a street or alley, or any
sidewalk thereof, and may have shade trecs planted along the said
streets; and it shall have the power to ordain and enforce such
ordinances, rules, and regulations respecting the same, or any of them,
as shall be proper for the health, interest, or convenience of the inhabi-
tants of said city. In the meantime no order shall be made, and no
injunction shall be awarded by any court or judge to stay the proceed-
ings of the city in the prosecution of its work, unless it be manifest that
the council, its officers, agents, or servants are transcending the
authority given by this act, and that the interposition of the court is
necessary to prevent injury that cannot be adequately compensated in
damages.
VIL. To prevent the cumbering of streets, avenues, walks, public
squares, lanes, alleys, or bridges in any manner whatever.
VIII. To regulate and prescribe the breadth of tires upon the wheels
of wagons, carts, and vehicles of heavy draught used upon the streets
of said city: provided, however, that this section shall not apply to
vehicles coming into and not owned in said city.
IX. To provide for the gauging and inspection of oil, molasses, vine-
gar, and spirits of turpentine, and for the proper weighing or admeasure-
ment of hay, fodder, oats, shucks, or other long forage, and for the
measurement of corn, oats, grain, coal, stone, wood, lumber, boards, pota-
toes, and other articles for sale or barter in the city: provided, no hay
or other commodity once weighed within the state shall not be required
to be weighed or reinspected.
AX. To require every merchant, retailer, trader, and dealer in mer-
chandise or property of any description, which is sold by measure or
weight, to cause their weights or measures to be sealed by the city sealer.
and to be subject to his inspection, and may impose penalties for any
Violation of any such ordinances.
Contagious Diseases.
XI. To secure the inhabitants from contagious, infectious, or other
dangerous diseases; to establish, erect, and regulate hospitals or pest-
houses in or near said city; to provide for and force the removal of
patients to said hospitals or pest-houses.
Board of Health.
XII. To appoint and organize a board of health for said city, with
authority for its government and support, and for the prompt and
efficient performance of its duties.
Burial Grounds.
XIII. To provide in or near said city, lands to be appropriated, im
proved, and kept in order as places for the burial of the dead, and may
charge for the use of ground in said place of burial, and may regulate
the same; may regulate the burial of the dead in the burial ground;
within the city, or prevent the same entirely.
Quarantine.
XIV. To adopt and enforce such regulations as may be necessary
under the usual system of quarantine, to prevent vessels or boats
or persons infected with contagious or infective diseases from enterin;
any port of the harbor appertaining to said city.
Nuisances.
XV. To require and compel the abatement and removal of al
nuisances within said city at the expense of the person or persons caus
ing the same, or the owner or owners of the ground whereon the sam
shall be. To regulate and prevent slaughter-houses, soap and candl
actories, or the prosecution of any dangerous, offensive, or unhealthy
yusiness, trade, or employment therein, which may be injurious to the
icalth of the inhabitants of said city.
XVI. If any ground in the said city shall be subject to be covered by
tagnant water, or if the owner or owners, occupier or occupiers thereof,
hall permit any offensive or unwholesome substance to remain or accu-
nulate therein, the council may cause such ground to be filled up, raised
yr drained, or may cause such substance to be covered or removed there-
rom, and may collect the expense of so doing from the said owner or
ywhers, occupier or occupiers, or any of them, by distress and sale, in
he same manner in which taxes levied upon real estate for the benefit
of said city are authorized to be collected: provided, that reasonable
notice shall be first given to the said owners or their agents. In case
»f non-resident owners, who have no agent in said city, such notice may
ye given by publication for not less than two weeks in anv newspaper
published in said city, or, where there is none, in some published in the
citv of Norfolk.
XVII. To direct the location of all buildings for storing gunpowder
or other combustible substances, and to regulate the sale and use of
cunpowder or firecrackers or fireworks prepared therefrom, kerosene
vil, nitroglycerine, camphene, burning fluid, or other combustible ma-
terial; to regulate or prevent the exhibition of fireworks, the discharge
of firearms, the use of candles or lights in barns, stables, and other
buildings, and to restrain the making of bonfires in streets and yards.
XVIII. To prevent hogs, dogs, and other animals from running at
large in the city, and may subject the same to such confiscations, regu-
lations, and taxes as they may deem proper; and the council may pro-
hibit the raising or keeping of hogs in the city.
XIX. To prevent the riding or driving of horses or other animals, at
an improper speed; to prevent the running of steam engines at an im-
proper speed within the limits of said city, and to wholly exclude the
said engines, if they please; to prevent the flying of kites, throwing of
stones, or the engaging in any employment or sports in the streets o1
public alleys dangerous or annoying to the people; and to prohibit and
punish the abuse of animals.
XX. To restrain and punish drunkards, vagrants, mendicants, and
street heggars.
XXI. To prevent vice and immorality; to make such regulations as
may be necessary to secure the inhabitants of said city against thieves
robbers, and burglars; to preserve the public peace and good order of
the city; to prevent and quell riots, disturbances, and disorderly assem.
blages; to suppress houses of ill-fame and gaming houses; to prevent
suppress, and punish lewd, disorderly, and indecent conduct or exhibi
tions in the city, and to expel therefrom persons guilty of such conduc!
who shall not have resided therein as much as one year. ,
XXII. To forbid and prevent the vending or other disposition 0:
liquors and intoxicating drinks to be drunk in any boat, store, or othe
place not duly licensed, and to forbid the selling or giving to be drunk
any intoxicating liquors to any child or young person without the con.
sent of his or her parent or guardian; and for any violation of any suck
ordinance may impose fines in addition to those prescribed by the laws
of the state.
XXIII. To prevent the coming into the city from beyond the limits
of the state of persons who may be dangerous to the peace and safety
of the city, or of persons having no ostensible means of support; and for
this purpose may require and compel any railroad company, or the
captain or master of any steamboat or vessel bringing such persons to
the city, to take them back from whence they came, and compel the
persons to leave the city, if they have not been in the city more than
twenty days before the order is given.
AXIV. To pass all laws, rules and ordinances not repugnant to the
constitution and laws of the United States or of this state, which shall
be necessary for the good order and government of such persons as
shall from time to time reside within the limits of the city.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.