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 | 1906 |
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Law Number | 282 |
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Chap. 282.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 12,
1894, incorporating the town of Tappahannock, in the county of Essex.
. Approved March 15, 1906.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the act en-
titled “an act to incorporate the town of Tappahannock, county of Essex,”
approved February twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, be amend-
ed and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
2. Be it further enacted, That the town of Tappahannock, in the county
of Essex, as the same has been heretofore laid off into lots, streets, and
alleys, or as the same may be hereafter laid off and extended into lots,
streets, and alleys, shall be, and the same is hereby, made a town corporate
by the name of the town of Tappahannock, and by that name shall have
and exercise the powers conferred upon towns of less than five thousand
population. ;
3. The boundaries of the said town shall be as follows: To commence
at the mouth of the creek which lies between the said town and the dwell-
ing-house or farm called Greenfield, on the Rappahannock river, the prop-
erty of the Brockenbroughs, following the meanderings of the said creek
to the first slash, which is on the road leading from Tappahannock to
Lloyd’s, in the said county; thence along the said road until it reaches a
point in line with the dividing line or fence between the Tanyard farm
and what was formerly the land of James Roy Micou, now J. W. Faul-
coner’s; thence to and along said line and continuing until it reaches a
point in the field called Wakefield, formerly the property of M. B. Wright,
deceased, fifty (50) yards from said Faulconer’s land; thence from said .
point to the Rappahannock river, passing through a point thirty feet south
of Judge T. R. B. Wright’s granary ; thence along the river shore to the
beginning.
4. The officers of the said town shall consist of a mayor, six council-
men, a sergeant, a treasurer, and such other officers as the council may
appoint, who shall be voters and citizens of the town. The mayor, coun-
cilmen, and sergeant shall have all the power and authority conferred on
such officers by the forty-fourth and the one hundred and ninety-first
chapters of the Code of Virginia of the edition of eighteen hundred and
eighty-seven, by all acts amendatory thereof, and by all laws applicable to
towns.
In event of sickness or absence of the mayor from the town, the duties
of the office shall be discharged by some member of the council, to be
designated by him in writing, and in event the said mayor should fail to
so designate, then the council shall elect a mayor pro tempore from among
their members.
In event of the death or resignation of the mayor during his term of
office, the council shall elect for the unexpired term a mayor either from
their number or from the qualified electors of the town.
The mayor shall preside at all meetings of the town council, and shall
vote only in case of a tie.
All vacancies occurring in the council shall be filled for the unexpired
term by the council from among the qualified electors of the town.
5. The mayor and councilmen shall serve without compensation, and
the compensation of the treasurer and sergeant shall be fixed by the town
council.
6. The jurisdiction of the mayor, councilmen, and sergeant shall be
such as is now conferred upon them by the forty-fourth and one hundred
and ninety-first chapters of the Code of Virginia of eighteen hundred and
eighty-seven, by any and all amendments thereof, and by any other law
or laws act or acts applicable to towns.
%. The mayor and councilmen shall be clected on the second Tuesday
of June, nineteen hundred and six, and every two years thereafter.
8. The council may adopt rules for the regulation of their proceedings.
but no tax shall be levied except by a majority vote of the council. The
mayor shall preside over the council, and when he is absent they may ap-
point a president pro tempore. A journal shall be kept of their proceed-
ings, and at the request of any member present the yeas and nays shall be
recorded on any question. At the next meeting the proceedings shall be
read and signed by the person who was presiding when the previous meet-
ing adjourned, or if he be not then present, by the person presiding when
they are read.
9. The council shall hold monthly meetings at dates to be designated
by itself, and may be convened at any time upon the call of the president
or any three of its members.
10. The council shall elect the sergeant of the town from among the
electors of the town, and he shall have all powers and authority conferred
by law upon the sergeants of towns, and shall discharge the same duties
as constables within the corporate limits of the town, and to the distance
of one mile beyond the same, and be entitled to the same fees as con-
stables
11. The council may elect from its own body, or from the electors of
the town, a treasurer, whose duty it shall be to collect all town levies and
taxes, and disburse the same by warrant of the council, and he shall have
the same power of levy or distress in collecting the said levies and taxes
as is now conferred upon county and city treasurers.
The council may require of him any bond in any penalty, with such
sureties as it may deem proper, payable to the town of Tappahannock.
and conditioned according to law for the faithful performance of said
duties as treasurer of said town.
Before entering upon the discharge of his duties, he shall take the oaths
required to be taken by the treasurer of the county. He may be removed
by the council at any time from the office of treasurer for any default in
duty, or any failure properly and promptly to account for any money in
his hands, as the council may order or direct. He shall receive for his
services as treasurer such compensation as the town council may from
time to time direct.
12. To meet any expenditures that may be lawfully chargeable to the
said town and for general purposes, the council may, at such time as it
deem best, levy a town tax of so much as, in its opinion, may seem neces
sary and proper not in conflict with the general laws of this State, upon
all taxable persons and property in the said town not exempt from tas-
ation by the laws of the State: provided, that the taxes levied for gencral
purposes on real and personal property of the town shall not exceed fifty
cents on the one hundred dollars of its assessed value.
13. In addition to the powers conferred upon the council of the town
of Tappahannock by the Code of Virginia of eighteen hundred and
cighty-seven, and by all amendments of it, and any other law, act, or act:
relating to towns as is hereinbefore stated, it shall have the power to
prevent hogs, dogs, cows, horses, and any other animal from running at
large in said town; to prevent riding or driving horses or any other ani-
mals in an improper speed through the streets of the said town; the
throwing of bricks, stones, or other missiles; the engaging in any employ-
ment, sport, conduct, bicycle riding, or any other act or acts on the streets,
sidewalks, or alleys dangerous or annoying to the passers along the streets,
or the citizens of the town; to restrain and punish drunkards, vagrants,
and street beggars, to prevent vice and immorality; to suppress houses of
ill-fame and gambling-houses; to prevent and quell riots, disturbances,
and disorderly assemblages, or assemblages likely to become disorderly ;
to prevent lewd, indecent, or disorderly conduct or exhibitions in the said
town; to prevent people coming into the town having no visible means of
support, and of persons who, singly or in any numbers, may be dangerous
to the health, peace, or safety of the said town; and if they are brought
to it bv any person or company, may compel that person or company im-
mediately, at his or its expense, to take them away or carry them back;
to appoint special police; to call out the local military company, as the
mayor of a city may do; and to do any and all other thing or things ne-
cessary and proper to protect the health, the lives, the safety of the town
and its citizens.
14. To carry into effect the enumerated and all other general powers,
the mayor and council shall have the power to make all needful and
proper orders, by-laws, and ordinances not inconsistent with the Con-
stitution of the United States and with the Constitution and laws of this
State; to prescribe all reasonable punishment and fines, and compel obe-
dience and compliance with the same by all the remedies and powers
granted to mayors and councilmen of towns by the general laws, and by
all the powers conferred by sections one thousand nine hundred and
thirty-two, and one thousand nine hundred and thirty-three of the Code
of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, by all amendments thereof, and by
any other Jaw whatever relating to mayors and councilmen of towns, and
they shall have all the fees allowed justices of the peace.
15. The council may, with the consent of the circuit court and the
board of supervisors of Essex county, use the jail of the said county, and
pay the jailer his usual costs and charges; and the council shall have au-
thority to provide a lock-up for the detention of criminals pending their
removal to the county jail, which said lock-up shall be under the charge
of the sergeant. When, by the provisions of the law, the council have au-
thority to pass ordinances on any subject, they may prescribe punishment
by fine or imprisonment, or both, for all violations thereof. Fines may be
recovered by warrants issued in the name of the town of Tappahannock
before the mayor. Whenever judgment is rendered against any person
for a fine, the officer trying the offender may require immediate payment
of the same, and in default of such payment may commit the party in
default to the county jail, or may compel him to work out such fines
and costs on the streets or other improvements of said town upon such
terms as the council by ordinance may prescribe. All fines for the viola-
tion of the ordinances of said town shall be paid into the treasury thereof,
and may be appropriated as the council may determine.
16. The council of said town may impose, levy, and collect a license
tax on all persons taxed by the general law doing business in said town:
the council shall also have power to levy and collect a license tax on any
show, exhibition, or merry-go-rounds within one mile of the limits of said
town.
17. The council may tax all moneys and credits invested, used, or em-
ployed in any business whatever, whether borrowed or not, as it taxes
other personal property in said town.
18. The council shall elect from its number a secretary, who shall draw
up and sign all warrants upon the treasurer, which said warrants shall be
countersigned by the mayor of said town.
19. Be it further enacted, That A. A. Cralle shall be mayor of said
town until his successor shall be elected and qualified under the election
herein provided for, and that B. B. Brockenbrough, A. F. Bagby, J. L.
Henley, J. C. Phillips, Thomas Latney, and D. C. Winston shall be the
council of the said town until their successors shall be elected and quali-
fied, as herein provided.
20. The mayor and council shall go into office on the first day of Sep-
tember immediately succeeding their election, and serve for two years.
21. An emergency existing on account of the election herein ordered.
this is declared to be an emergency act, and as such shall be in force from
its passage.