Chap. 262.—An ACT to amend section 12 of an act of the general assembly of
Virginia, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Pulaski,
approved February 2, 1898.

Approved March 15, 1906.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twelve of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of
Pulaski, approved February second, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight,
be, and the same is hereby, amended and re-enacted so as to read as fol-
lows:

$12. To establish, improve, or enlarge water works and electric light
works, or gas works, or to construct and equip and operate new electric
light plants or water works, electric wires, poles, pipes, and other appur-
tenances to said plants within or without the corporate limits of said
town for the purpose of supplying the inhabitants of said town, or other
persons, companies, or corporations with water, electric lights or power:
to contract with the owners of any land, or water, or water rights, or other
rights, for the use and purchase thereof, or to have the same condemned
for the purposes aforesaid, whether situated within or without the corpo-
rate limits of the said town, for the location, extension, enlargement, or
improvement of said works, or for the construction of new works, the
pipe lines, wires, or pole lines connected therewith, or any fixtures and
appurtenances thereof, and shall, so far as not in conflict with the gen-
eral law, have jurisdiction over and the power to protect from injury by
ordinances prescribing adequate penalties the said pipes, fixtures, and
land, or anything connected therewith, or works, fixtures, and
other appurtenances, or water and electric light plants, or gas works.
established under its authority, within or without the corporate limits
of said town; and in order to establish any of the said plants the council
may, in their discretion, have power to execute and issue, negotiate, and
sell the bonds of said town not to exceed, including the then existing in-
debtedness, fifteen per centum of the assessed value of the real and per-
sonal property, assessed for taxation, within the corporate limits of said
town, which bonds shall not run exceeding thirty-four years from the date
of issue, and shall bear interest not exceeding six per centum per annum:
hut no such bonds shall be issued for such purposes except upon the peti-
tion of freeholders, persons, or corporations owning property in said town,
who represent at least three-fifths of the assessed value of the real estate
vithin the corporate limits of said town. The condemnation proceedings
ierein authorized for property or rights within said town shall be accord-
ng to the provisions of section five of said act and for property or rights
without said town shall be according to the provisions, so far as they can
ne made to apply to the same, of an act concerning the exercise of the
power of eminent domain found in the acts of the general assembly,
nineteen hundred and two, nineteen hundred and three, and nineteen
hundred and four, page nine hundred and fifty-seven, and being chapter
forty-six b of Pollard’s Virginia Code of nineteen hundred and four, and
not contrary to any general law of the State.