Chap. 88.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 20 of an act of the general
assembly of Virginia, approved March 7, 1912, entitled an act to amend
and re-enact section 20 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia.
approved March 14, 1906, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act
of the general assembly of Virginia in force January 21, 1884, entitle
an act providing a charter for the city of Norfolk and repealing the:
existing charter, approved April 21, 1882, as amended by the severa!
acts of the general assembly of Virginia, approved, respectively, April ;
6. 1887; April 28, 1887; May 14, 1887; February 14, 1900; February 21,
1900; February 26, 1900; February 2, 1901; February 15, 1901; March
15, 1902; and to define the boundaries of the said city or Norfolk, as
extended by the several acts of the general assembly, approved Apri
6, 1887; February 22, 1890, and March 14, 1902, and by an order of the
circuit court of Norfolk county, which was entered on the 9th day of
January, 1906. (S. B. 229.)

Approved March 13, 1914.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That.
section twenty of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, ap-
proved March seventh, nineteen hundred and twelve, entitled an
act to amend and re-enact section twenty of an act of the general
assembly of Virginia, approved March fourteenth, nineteen hun-
dred and six, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act of the
general assembly of Virginia, in force, January twenty-first, eigh- |
teen hundred and eighty-four, entitled an act providing a charter
for the city of Norfolk, and repealing the existing charter, approved
April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, as amended
by the several acts of the general assembly of Virginia, approved,
respectively, April sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven; April
twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven; May fourteenth,
eighteen hundred and eighty-seven; February fourteenth, nineteen
hundred; February twenty-first, nineteen hundred; February
twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred; February second, nineteen hundred
and one; February fifteenth, nineteen hundred and one; March
fifteenth, nineteen hundred and two, and to define the boundaries of
the said city of Norfolk, as extended by the several acts of the
general assembly, approved April sixth, eighteen hundred and
eighty-seven; February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and
ninety, and March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and two, and by
an order of the circuit court of Norfolk county, which was entered
on the ninth day of January, nineteen hundred and six, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 20. The city council shall have, subject to the provisions
herein contained, the control and management of the fiscal and |
municipal affairs of the city, and of all property, real and personal,
belonging to the said city, and may make such ordinances, orders
and by-laws relating to the same as it shall deem proper and nec-

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by-laws, orders and regulations as it may deem desirable to carry
out the following powers, which are hereby vested in it:

First. To establish markets in and for said city, prescribe the
times and places for holding same, provide suitable buildings there-
for, and to enforce such regulations as shall be necessary or proper
to prevent huckstering, forestalling and regrating.

Second. To erect or provide, in or near the city, suitable work-
houses, houses of correction or reformation, and houses for the
reception and maintenance of the poor and destitute. It shall
possess and exercise exclusive authority over all persons within
the limits of the city, receiving or entitled to the benefits of the poor
laws, and regulate pauperism within the limits of the city, and the
said council, through the agencies it shall appoint for the direction
and management of the poor of the city, shall exercise the powers
and perform the duties vested by law in overseers of the poor.

Third. To acquire, build and maintain all public buildings
necessary or proper for said city, and to acquire and maintain such
public squares and parks as, in the judgment of the city council,
may be convenient for the use of the said city, and to regulate the
placing of signs and the use of bill boards on or along the streets
of said city.

Fourth. To erect within said city a city prison, and such prison
may contain such apartments as shall be necessary for the safe-
keeping and employment of all persons confined therein, and to
provide, by ordinance as the said council may see fit, for the employ-
ment, either within or without said prison, of all persons sentenced
to confinement in said prison for violation of the laws of the State
of Virginia, or ordinances of the city of Norfolk.

Fifth. To provide for the acquisition by purchase, lease, con-
demnation or otherwise, of lands, either within or without the city
limits, for public parks, water works, gas works, electric light
plants, cold storage plants, heating plants, sewer plants, conduit
plants, hospitals, cemeteries, public wharves or docks and public
warehouses or either or any of them, and for the construction and
maintenance of water works, gas works, electric light plants, cold
storage plants, heating plants, sewer plants, conduit plants, public
wharves or docks and public warehouses, may make such ordinances
and regulations for the government, management, or use thereof
or of either or any of them, and may contract with individuals,
firms, corporations and other municipalities for the use of such
water, gas, electricity or of the cold storage, heating, sewer plants,
conduit plants, public wharves or docks and public warehouses,
either within or without the city limits, and collect such rates of
charges for the use thereof as it may deem proper; provided, that
in no event shall such contracts be made with individuals or cor-
porations (except water companies) for the delivery of water at
points without the city where the mains laid or to be laid are paral-
fered DY the mains oF anv water company, nor shall such contracts
be made for the delivery of water within the city of Portsmouth.
cr, on the west side of the Elizabeth river, within three miles of
the corporate limits thereof. except by virtue of powers derived
by law from the acquisition of the property of any water company
doing business in said city, and likewise may provide for the gov-
ernment, management and use of the public parks, hospitals and
cemeteries, and for the sale of lots in cemeteries as it may deem
proper, and it may open streets. lanes and public squares of said
city for the purpose of carrying into effect the powers herein vested,
and, to the end that full authority be given in the premises, it may,
in the name and for the use of said city, do all things necessary
cr expedient for the convenient use of any or all of the things
hereby empowered in whatever way the same may be lawfully
accomplished; provided, however. that for the purposes of public
parks, gas works, electric Jight plants, cold storage plants, heating
plants, sewer plants, conduit plants, hospitals, public wharves or
docks and public warehouses, the amount of land to be held bv the
city of Norfolk shall not exceed two thousand acres; and provided
further, that, in addition to the powers hereinbefore enumerated,
the city of Norfolk shall have power to construct suitable works to
convey water into said city and elsewhere from such place or places
as it may select, except so far as above limited, and the said city
may acquire by purchase, gift, lease or condemnation and hold such
land and lands covered with water in the counties of Norfolk and
Princess Anne, or in any other county or counties in this State as
are expedient either for a supply of water or for enlarging or
improving its present water supply, or for preventing the pollution
of same from impure drainage or otherwise, or for its use for its
pumping stations, reservoirs. or other works necessary for oper-
ating the same; provided, that the whole area of such land or lands
covered with water shall not at any one time exceed twenty thou-
sand acres, and also such parcels of land each not exceeding one
hundred feet in width in any county or counties in this State for
the purpose of laying its nipes. aqueducts, or other structures for
conveying its water into the city and to its users elsewhere. or to
its reservoirs or other places of supply and distribution, and shall
have the right to erect such dams or other structures as may be
necessary for securing such supply or conveying the same for use
and distribution. It shall also have the power to take and acquire
such materials for construction as are now or may hereafter be
conferred upon railroads or other internal improvement companies
under the laws of this State, and mav hold. use and employ such
machinery, boats. apparatus and other appliances as it may deem
proper for supplying the said citv and its users elsewhere with
water and for the transaction of the business pertaining thereto;
provided, however, that in case part only of the land of any person
is proposed to be taken by the said city, the commissioners in
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assessing the damages may, in their discretion, with the consent of
the said city, reserve to the owners of the said land such easements
or rights in or rights of way over the said land, or such part
thereof as they may deem proper, and in such case the said city shall
take and hold such parts in fee subject to such easements, rights or
rights of way.

The said council is empowered to require all wires and cables
carrying electricity to be placed in conduits, to prescribe and estab-
lish reasonable rules and regulations for the construction of such
conduits, and to provide for the supervision over all electrical
dlevices and appliances used in said city.

The said council shall have power to protect from injury by
adequate penalties said works, plants, pipes, fixtures and land, or
anything connected therewith, within or without the limits of said
city, and to prevent the pollution of the water by prohibiting the
throwing of filth or offensive matter therein, or its pollution in any
other way, and such prohibition may be enforced by proper penal-
ties. Nothing in this section shall be construed to abridge the
right or rights now possessed by any company or companies to
operate its property or extensions in the streets and public places
ot the city of Norfolk.

If the said city seeks to annex any territory, or any territory
seeks to be annexed to the said city under the provisions of an act
approved March tenth, nineteen hundred and four, entitled an act
to provide for the extension of corporate limits of cities and towns,
any company or corporation owning or operating water works,
mains, pipes, or any appliances in said territory to be annexed shall
have the right to file a petition in the proceedings provided for in
said act approved March tenth, nineteen hundred and four, offering
to sell said city, its works, mains, pipes and appliances, together
with all its rights, privileges and franchises, which are in or pertain
to said territory to be annexed, and in the event that the said city
or corporation cannot agree with the said city upon the price to
be paid for the same, then a fair valuation of same shall be deter-
mined py three arbitrators, one to be appointed by the said city,
ene to be appointed by the said company or corporation, and the
two thus appointed to select a third, and in the event that they
cannot agree, then he shall be appointed by the State corporation
commission. The amount so found by the majority of said board
of arbitrators shall be the price that said city may offer to said
company or corporation for the same; provided, that if the said
city fails to offer to purchase the said works, mains, pipes, rights,
privileges and franchises from the said company or corporation
according to the terms hereinbefore set out, then the said city shall
be prohibited from extending or operating any water works, mains,
pipes or appliances into or in the said territory annexed; but if
the said city offers to purchase the same at that price, and the said
company or corporation refuses or fails to accept said offer within
ninety (90) days thereafter, then the said city shall have the abso-
Jute right to extend or operate its water works, pipes, mains and
appliances anywhere in said territory annexed.

Sixth. To establish, construct and keep in order, alter or
remove landings, wharves and docks on land belonging to or which
shall hereafter belong to the city, and to lay and collect a reasonable
duty on vessels coming to and using the same, and to regulate the
manner of using other wharves and landings within the corporate
limits, and prescribe the rates of wharfage to be paid by vessels
using the same, to prevent or remove all obstructions in and upon
any landings, wharves or docks; to deepen and clean the harbor and
river. It may buy or build and maintain such roads and bridges
within and outside of the limits of said city as may be needful and
convenient to reach any suburb, town or village, or any property of
said city lying outside of the city limits, and may condemn such
lands as may be necessary for the building and maintaining of such
roads and bridges, and may establish and collect tolls on any such
bridge.

Seventh. To close, extend, widen, narrow, lay out, graduate,
improve and otherwise alter streets and public alleys in the said
city, and have them properly lighted and kept in good order, and it
may make or construct sewers or ducts through the streets or public
grounds of the city, and through any place or places whatsoever,
when it may be deemed by the said council expedient. The said
council may have over any street or alley in the city, which has
been or may be ceded to the city, like authority as over other streets
or alleys, and may prevent or remove any structure, obstruction or
encroachment over or under or in a street or alley, or any sidewalk
thereof, and may have shade trees planted along the said streets.

Eighth. To prevent the cumbering of streets, avenues, walks,
public squares, lanes, alleys, or bridges in any manner whatsoever;
to compel the occupant or owner of buildings or grounds to remove
snow, dirt or rubbish from the sidewalks in front thereof.

Ninth. To extinguish and prevent fires, prevent property from
being stolen, and to compel citizens to render assistance to the fire
department in case of need, and to establish, regulate and control
a fire department of said city; to regulate the size, materials and
construction of buildings hereafter erected in such manner as the
public safety and conveniences may require; to remove, or require
to be remioved, any building, structure or addition thereto which,
by reason of dilapidation, defect of structure, or other causes, may
have, or shall become, dangerous to life or property, or which may
be erected contrary to law; to establish and designate from time to
time fire limits, within which limits wooden buildings shall not be
constructed, removed, added to or enlarged, and to direct that any
or all future buildings within such limits shall be constructed of
stone, natural or artificial, concrete, brick or iron; provided, how-
ever, that by a vote of two-thirds of al] the members of the city
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council permission may be granted for storage sheds constructed
on pile piers or wharves on the waterfront, the sides and roofs of
which shall be covered with corrugated iron or other fireproof
material.

Tenth. To authorize the laying down of railroad tracks and
street car tracks upon the streets of said city, to be maintained and
operated under such regulations as the said council may prescribe.

Eleventh. To determine and designate the route and grade of
any railroad to be laid in the city, and to restrain and regulate the
rate of speed of locomotives, engines and cars upon the railroads
within the said city, both commercial and street, and may wholly
exclude such engines and cars if it pleases, provided no contract be
thereby violated.

Twelfth. To regulate and prescribe the breadth of tires upon
the wheels of wagons, carts and vehicles of every kind and descrip-
tion used upon the streets of said city.

Thirteenth. To require any or all articles of commerce or traf-
fic to be gauged, inspected, measured, weighed, or metered.

Fourteenth. To require every merchant, retailer, trader or
dealer in merchandise or property of any description, which is sold
by measure, or weight, to have such measures and weights sealed,
and to be subject to inspection.

Fifteenth. To provide for, or aid in, support of public free
schools, colleges and libraries, and make appropriations to non-
sectarian schools of manual, industrial or technical training, and
also to any school or institution of learning owned or exclusively
controlled by such city, and also to provide for or aid in support
of public wharves or docks and public warehouses, and to make
appropriations for the benefit of the same.

Sixteenth. To provide for the preservation of the general
health of the inhabitants of said city, make regulations to secure
the same, prevent the introduction or spreading of contagious or
infectious diseases, and prevent and suppress diseases generally;
to provide and regulate hospitals within or without the city limits,
and to enforce the removal of persons afflicted with contagious or
infectious diseases to hospitals provided for them; to provide for
the appointment and organization of a board of health or other
board, to have the powers of a board of health, for said city, with
the authority necessary for the prompt and efficient performance
ef its duties, with power to invest any or all the officials or employees
of such department of health with such powers as the police offi-
cers of the city have; to regulate the burial, cremation, or dispo-
sition of the dead; to compel the return of births and deaths to be
made to its health department, and the return of all burial permits
to such department.

Seventeenth. To acquire by purchase, condemnation or other-
wise, either within or without the city, lands to be appropriated,
Imnroved and kent in arder ac niacec for the intarmant nf tha doad
and may charge for the use of the grounds in said places of inter-
ment, and may regulate the same; to prevent the burial of the dead
in the city, except in public burying grounds; to regulate burials
in said grounds; to require the keeping and return ot bills of mor-
tality by the keepers or owners of all cemeteries, and shall have
power to acquire by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, accord-
ing to law, such lands, and in such quantity as it may deem proper
or necessary, for the purpose of burying the dead.

Eighteenth. To establish a quarantine ground within or with-
out the city limits, and such quarantine regulations against infec-
tious and contagious diseases as the said council may see fit, subject
to the laws of the State and of the United States.

Nineteenth. ‘l’o require and compel the abatement and removal
of all nuisances within said city, or upon any property owned by
said city without its limits, at tne expense of Wwe person or persons
causing the same, or the vccupant or the owner of the ground
whereon the same may be; to prevent or regulate slaugnter nouses
and soap and candle factories within said city, or the exercise of
any dangerous, offensive or unhealthy business, trade or employ-
ment therein; to reguiate the transportation of all articles through
the streets of the city; to compel the abatement of smoke and dust;
to regulate the location of stables and the manner in which they
shall be constructed and kept.

Twentieth. If any ground in the said city shall be subject to
be covered by stagnant water, or if the owner or occupant thereof
shall permit any offensive or unwholesome substance to remain or
accumulate thereon, the said council may cause such ground to be
filled up, raised or drained, or may cause such substance to be cov-
ered or removed therefrom, and may collect the expense of so doing
from the said owner or occupant by distress or sale, in the same
manner in which taxes levied upon real estate for the benefit of
said city are authorized to be collected; provided, that reasonable
notice shall be first given to the said owner or occupant, or his
agent. In case of non-resident owners, who have no agent in said
city, such notice may be given by publication for not less than ten
days in any newspaper published in said city, such publication to
be at the expense of said owner, and the cost thereof to be collected
as a part of the expense hereinbefore provided for.

Twenty-first. To direct the location of all buildings for storing
gunpowder or other explosive or combustible substances; to regu-
late or prohibit the sale and use of dynamite, gunpowder, fire-
crackers, or fireworks, kerosene oil, nitroglycerine, camphene, burn-
ing fluid and all explosive or combustible materials, the exhibition
of fireworks, the discharge of firearms, the use of candles and lights
in barns, stables and other buildings, the making of bonfires, and
the carrying of concealed weapons.

Twenty-second. To prevent the running at large in said city
of all animals and fowls, and to regulate or prohibit the keeping or
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raising of the same within said city, and to subject the same to such
confiscation, levies, regulations, and taxes as it deem proper.

Twenty-third. To prevent the riding or driving of animals at
improper speed; to regulate the speed and manner of use upon the
streets of said city of all animals or vehicles; to prevent the flying
of kites, throwing of stones, or the engaging in any employment or
sport in the streets or public alleys dangerous or annoying to the
public, and to prohibit and punish the abuse of animals.

Twenty-fourth. To restrain and punish drunkards, vagrants,
mendicants and street beggars.

Twenty-fifth. To prevent vice and immorality; to preserve pub-
lic peace and good order; to prevent and quell riots, disturbances
and disorderly assemblages; to suppress houses of ill-fame and
gaming houses; to prevent lewd, indecent, or disorderly conduct or
exhibitions in the city, and to expel from the said city persons
guilty of such conduct who shall not have resided therein as much
as one year.

Twenty-sixth. To forbid and prevent the selling or other dis-
position of liquors or intoxicating drinks to be drunk in any boat,
store, or other place not duly licensed; and to forbid the selling or
giving to be drunk any intoxicating liquors to any child or minor;
and for violation of any such ordinance may impose fine or impris-
onment in addition to those prescribed by the laws of the State.

Twenty-seventh. To prevent, prohibit, or regulate the coming
into the city from points either within or beyond the limits of the
State of paupers, persons having no ostensible means of support, or
persons who may be dangerous to the peace or safety of the city;
and for this purpose may require any railroad company, the captain,
or master of any vessel, or the owner of any conveyance bringing
any such person to or leaving him in said city to enter into bond,
with satisfactory security, that such person shall not become charge-
able to the city within one year from the date of his arrival, or may
compel such company, captain or master or owner to take any such
person back to the place whence he was brought, and may compel
any such person to leave the city if he has not been in the city more
than ninety days before the order is given.

Twenty-eighth. And the said council shall also have power to
make such other and additional ordinances as it may deem necessary
for the general welfare of said city; and nothing herein contained
shall be construed to deprive said city of any of the powers con-
ferred upon it either by general or special laws of the State of
Virginia, except in so far as the same may be inconsistent with the
provisions of this charter.

2. All acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby
repealed.