Chap. 91.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of the charter of the city of
Richmond, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 29, 1871, as
amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 12, 1903, relating to the
election of municipal officers.

Approved March 10, 1904.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section five
of the charter of the city of Richmond, as amended and re-enacted by an
act approved December twelfth, nineteen hundred and three, as amended
and re-enacted by an act approved March twenty-ninth, eighteen hun-
dred and seventy-one, relating to the election of municipal officers, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 5. The mayor and members of the board of aldermen and of the
common council of the city of Richmond shall be elected on the second
Tuesday.in June immediately preceding the expiration of the terms of
office of their predecessors, and their terms of office shall begin on the
first day of September succeeding: all other elective officers of the city
of Richmond shall be elected on Tuesday after the first Monday in No-
vember, and their terms of office shall begin on the first day of January
succeeding, except the terms of office of the clerks of the corporation
courts of the city of Richmond shall begin coincidently with those of the
judges of their said courts. In the event of the adoption of any resolu-
tion or ordinance of the council or act of the general assembly of Vir-
ginia heretofore or hereafter passed changing the boundary of any ward
or wards or establishing a new ward out of the territory of another ward
or wards, by reason of which any member of either branch of the city
council, any fire commissioner, any police commissioner, any magistrate,
or any other city officer, who is required to reside in the ward from which
he is elected, becomes a resident of a new ward or of some other ward
than that from which he was elected, then, in that event, such officer shall
continue in office to the end of the full term for which he was elected,
just as if there had been no change in the wards of the city; but the
terms of office of all officers whose residence is not changed by the crea-
tion of a new ward or change of the boundaries of the old wards shall not
be affected, but such term or terms shall continue, expire, and be filled
as if there had been no creatoin of new wards or change of boundaries of
old wards.

But when by the change of the boundaries of a ward, or the creation
of a new ward, or the abolition of a ward. a member of the board of alder-
men becomes a resident of some ward other than that from which he was
elected, and his term of office does not expire on the first day of Septem-
ber following the ensuing municipal election, he shall become a member
of the board of aldermen from the ward from which he, by such change,
has become a resident for the last two vears of his term.

2. Inasmuch as an act approved December twelfth, nineteen hundred
and three, was made to change the term of office of the members of the
board of aldermen, which act took effect from its passage, and as it is
mecessary to correct the change thus made at once, this act shall be in
force from its passage. :