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.
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Volume | 1902/1903 |
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Law Number | 248 |
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Chap. 248.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 6, 7, 15, 16, 17, 21, and 29,
and to repeal sections 9, 11, 19, and 24 of an act entitled an act to amend the
charter of the town of Big Stone Gap, and to legalize certain acts of the town
council, approved February 28, 1890, as amended by an act entitled an act to
amend and re-enact. sections 4, 11, 15, and 17, and to repeal sections 12 and 13
of said original act, approved February 24, 1898.
Approved May 15, 1903.
Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
six, seven, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, twenty-one, and twenty -nine of
an act entitled “an act to amend the ‘charter of the town of Rig Stone
Gap, and to legalize certain acts of the town council,” approved Febru-
ary twenty-eighth, eighteen’ hundred and ninety, as amonled by an act
entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections four, cleven, fifteen. and
seventeen, and to repeal sections twelve and thirteen of said original
act, approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-
eight, be amended and re-enacted as follows:
$6. The mavor and trustees, composing the council, shall be elected
on “the second Tuesday in June, of the vear nineteen hundred and three,
and every second vear thereafter, to go into office on the first day of
Septemie r succeeding, to hold office for two vears thereafter.
When, from any cause, a vacanev shall oceur in the office of
mavor trustee, sergeant, or treasurer, it shall be filled by the couneil at
its next regular meeting from the qualified electors of said town: sueh
appointee to hold office until the end of the term for which his prede-
cessor was elected, and an entry of any such appointment shall be made
on the town minute book.
§ 15. A town sergeant shall be elected on the second Tuesday in June,
nineteen hundred and three, and every second vear thereafter, to go into
office on the first dav of September suceceding., to hold offiee for two
years thereafter. Tle shall exeeute bond in such amount as the coun-
cil may prescribe and approve.
As many assistant sergeants as the council may authorize may be ap-
pointed by the mavor. The mayor shall have power to remove the ser-
geant or any assistant sergeant for cause, but he shall certify the re-
moval, with the cause therefor, to the council at its next regular mecting,
§& 16. The council may appoint such other tewn officials as it sees fit,
prescribe their duties, and fix their compensation, as well as the com-
pensation of the sergeant, assistant sergeants, treasurer, and mavor.
£17. A town treasurer shall be elected on the second Tuesday in
June in the year nineteen hundred and three, and every second year
thereafter, to go into office on the first day of the succeeding Septem-
ler. and to hold office for two vears. He shall give bond, to be ap-
proved by the council, before entering on his duties. Tle shall collect
q!t taxes, levies, licenses, and assessments due the town, and reeeive all
a ins collected by the mayor or other members of the council as fines
nd penalties. He shall pay out town moneys only on warrants signed
I the recorder and countersigned by the mayor. Tle shall keep pro-
jeer hooks, and shall make monthly and annual statements to the eoun-
2, ho ing all monevs received and paid out. Tle may be removed for
fuse liv the council, by a majority vote of the whole council, such vote,
an? the reason therefor being spread upon the minutes of the council.
$21. The council may, in addition to the powers given by general
law. pass ordinances imposing punishment for all offenses against the
ordinances of said town, except felonies committed within said town;
and the town authorities shall have exclusive jurisdiction of the trial
thereof: and all by-laws and ordinances and resolutions or acts under
authority. thercof, heretofore passed or done, are hereby declared legal
and binding.
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S 29. Tf such an election be held. and a majority of the votes legally
t be found in favor of an issue of bonds, it shall be the duty of the
in council to elect four competent and suitable residents of said
town, who, together with the mavor of the town, shall compose a board
to he known as the board of sinking fund commissioners. ‘The mavor
of the town (ex-officio a member) shall be the president of the said
hoard. All the members of the said board: shall give bond befere en-
tering on their duties in such sum and with such security as the coun-
el imay prescribe, and no trustee of the town shall be a member of said
hoard. Of the members of said board first elected, one shall be eleeted
to held office for one vear, one for two vears, one for three vears. and
one for four vears, and until their respective successors are duly elected
anil qualified, unless removed hy the eouneil: and annually thereafter
ene member shall be eleeted to hold for four vears from the date of his
analification, and until his successor is duly cleeted and qualified. unless
swoner removed by the council: provided. that the mavor (member ex-
nfcio) shall be succeeded in the ofiec of president of said board by his
successor In the office of mavor. When anv member of said beard shall
Ge pesion or become incapacitated, the council shall forthwith cleet a
snecessor In office. Tt shall be the duty of the hoard of sinking fund
commissioners, when any reste of bonds is ordered by the eouneil, to
have the same prepared, signed by the president of said board and the
recorder of said town, and to se]] the same on the best terms and for the
best price that can, by all reasonable effort, be obtained.
Whenever an issue of honds shall have been made, it shall be the
duty of the town council to levy and have collected a Matte qent sum
each year after such issue to pay the interest on said bonds which will
have acerued up to the time such collection can be made and. dis-
bursed, and also equal to such proportion of the principal of all of suc
bonds as one year bears to the number of vears to elapse from the date
of issue of such bonds until the time the same became due and payable.
The sums thus collected shall be turned over to the board of sinking
fund commissioners, who shall, when it is due; pay the accrued in:
terest on all of said bonds, and the balance of the moncy thus placec
in their hands shall be by said board invested in interest-bearing 01
dividend-paying securities which, in their judgment, are safe and no
liable to fluctuate in value. And the fund thus collected shall, unti.
the discharge of the bonds of the issue to secure which it is collected
be applied to no other purpose whatever.
The council shall make and pass all necessary by-laws and ordinances
to carry out the provisions above as to the creation, investment, preser-
vation, and application of such sinking fund.
2. Be it further enacted, That sections nine, eleven, nineteen, and
twenty-four of an act entitled “an act to amend the charter of the town
of Big Stone Gap and to legalize certain acts of the council, approved
February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety, as amended by
an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections four, eleven, fif-
teen, and seventeen, and to repeal sections twelve and thirteen of said
original act, approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and
ninety-eight, be, and the same are hereby, repealed.
3. This act shall be in force from its passage.