Chap. 141.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 15 of an act entitled “an act
to provide a new charter for the town of Liberty, to extend its limits, and
change the name to Bedford City,” approved March 3, 1890.

Approved March 14, 1904.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
fifteen of an act entitled “an act to provide a new charter for the town
of Liberty, to extend its limits, and change the name to Bedford City,”
approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 15. The mayor and council shall, in addition to the powers conferred
by law on town councils generally, have the following powers—to-wit:

First. To restrain and punish drunkards, vagrants, and street beggars,
to prevent vice and immorality, to suppress houses of ill-fame and gam-
bling houses, to prevent and punish lewd, indecent, and disorderly con-
duct or exhibitions in said town, and to expel therefrom persons guilty
of such conduct who have not resided therein as much as one year. Also
to prevent, forbid, and punish the selling or giving of liquors and intoxi-
cating drinks in any place not duly licensed, and the selling or giving
any intoxicating liquors to any minor without the consent, in writing,
of his or her parent or guardian; and for any violation of any ordinance
under this section may impose fines in addition to those prescribed by the
laws of this State.

Second. To establish a local board of health for said town, to consist
of three regularly licensed physicians residing in the corporation, to be
elected biennially by said mayor and council at the December meeting of
said council, to go into office the first of January succeeding said election,
but the first board: elected hereunder to be elected at any regular meeting
of said council, and to hold office until the first day of January, nineteen
hundred and six. The mayor of said town shall be ex-officio a member
of said board; and its powers and duties shall be the same as those pre-
scribed for local boards of health by chapter eleven hundred and forty-
six of the acts of assembly of eighteen hundred and ninety-nine and nine-
teen hundred. The said board shall be subject to all the provisions, limi-
tations, and restrictions of said act, so far as consistent with the pro-
visions of this act.

2. And whereas an emergency exisis to make immediate provision for
the prevention and spread of contagious diseases in said town, this act
shall be in force from its passage.