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 | 1901/1902 |
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Law Number | 407 |
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Law Body
Chap. 407.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 55 of an act. entitled an act to
provide a new charter for the town of Emporia, approved January 31, 1898, as
amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 28, 1898.
Approved March 29, 1902.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section fifty-
five of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of
Emporia, approved January thirty-first, cigitcen Munared and ninety-
cight, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February twenty-
0] ichth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, be amended and re-enacted so
as to read as follows:
§ 55. The town council of Emporia shall, on or about the first day of
May, nineteen hundred and two, and annually thereafter, make or cause
to he made and entered upon the records of the proccedings an estimate
and statement of all sums of money which may lawfully be or may law-
fully become chargeable to said town, and which ought to be paid in one
year for any and all purposes, and all necessary improvements, together
with a statement of the purposes or objects for which said sums of money
may become chargeable to the said town of Emporia. For the exccution
of its powers and duties the town council may raise annually by assess-
ment in said town, on all subjects taxable by the State, such sums of
money as they shall deem necessary to defray the expenses of the town,
and in such manner as they shall deem expedient, and in accordance with
the constitution and laws of the State and of the United States: provided,
that the town levy upon all property within the town—real, personal, and
mixed—shall not annually exceed fifty cents on the one hundred dollars
in value. The said levy may be upon all dogs within the town, and upon
all property—real, personal, and mixed—within the town, and upon such
other subjects of taxation. as may be subject to State taxation and not
exempt from taxation by the constitution and laws of the State; said
levy to be based upon the value as affixed by the last general assessment
made for State and county purposes next preceding said assessment made
by the town council; said taxes to be levied and collected in the same
manner in which State taxes are levied and collected, and upon the same
subjects of taxation. *
The town council shall have power to impose and the town sergeants to
collect from all persons, firms, and corporations doing a mercantile or
any kind of business within the town, and from shows or exhibits within
the town or without one mile of the limits of the town, as are now taxed
by law, a license tax not in excess of that imposed by the State law, which
shall be in addition thereto, and the revenues arising therefrom, together
with all fines imposed by the mayor and collected by the sergeant, and the
taxes collected upon property—real, personal, and mixed—as aforesaid,
as well as the tax upon dogs, shall be applied by the council toward pay-
ing the current expenses of said town, and toward meeting all just de-
mands against the town of Emporia, or on any account chargeable to said
town.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.