Chap. 11.—An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter V of an act approved
January 29, 1896, entitled an act to consolidate in one act all acts creatiug
and amending the charter of the city of Lynchburg, and to create a new
charter for said city. (S. B. 29)

Approved February 2, 1915.

Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That chapter five
of an act approved January twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-
six, entitled an act to consolidate in one act all acts creating and amend-
ing the charter of the city of Lynchburg and to create a new charter for
the said city, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

CHAPTER V.
Mayor and Police Justice, Their Election, Duties and so forth.

1. The mayor shall be elected by the qualified voters of the city for
the term of four years; his salary shall be fixed by the ordinances of the
city, and paid as therein directed, and shall not be diminished during his
term of office. ,

2. The mayor shall be the executive head of the city government; he
shall see that the duties of the various city officials, boards and depart-
ments, whether such officials and members of such boards and depart-
ments are elected or appointed, are faithfully performed, and his duties
and powers with reference to his supervision of the conduct of municipal
officers and the affairs of the city shall be such as are prescribed by the
Constitution and laws of the State and the ordinances of the city.

3. The corporation court of the city may remove the mayor from
office for malfeasance, misfeasance or gross neglect of official duty, and
such removal shall be deemed a vacation of the office. All proceedings
against the mayor for purpose of removing him from office shall be by
order of or motion before said court, upon reasonable notice to the party
affected thereby, and with the right to said party of an appeal to the
supreme court of appeals.
4. In the event of the death, resignation, removal of the mayor, or
his inability to discharge his duties from some other cause, his place shall
be filled and his duties shall be discharged by the president of the board
of aldermen until another mayor is elected and qualified or until such
inability shall cease.

5. Within ten days after such death, resignation or removal of the
mayor, the corporation court of the city shall order a special election,
which shall be held within thirty days after such order is entered, to
fill the unexpired term of such mayor; provided, the unexpired part of
said term remaining after such election is as much as one year.

6. The city council shall, in the month of September, nineteen hun-
dred and sixteen, or as soon thereafter as it may deem proper, elect an
officer, who shall be called the police justice of the city, and whose term
of office shall begin as soon as he shall be elected and qualified, and
whose term of office shall end on December thirty-one ninteen hundred
and nineteen; the police justice shall thereafter be elected by the council
at such times as it elects the other city officers; his term of office shall
begin on the first of January succeeding his election and shall continue
for four years thereafter; his salary shall be fixed by the council and paid
out of the city treasury, and shall not be diminished during his term of
office.

%. The said police justice shall have all the powers and duties of a
justice of the peace in both civil and criminal matters, and in addition
tu such powers and duties it shall be his duty and he shall have juris-
diction to enforce the penal laws of the State and city and the ordinances
and resolutions of the council, and he shall have exclusive original juris-
diction of all offenses of whatever nature against the ordinances of the
city: his jurisdiction shall extend throughout the corporate limits of the
city and in criminal matters for one mile beyond those limits. In en-
forcing such laws, ordinances and resolutions, he shall have power to
enforce and collect all fines and penalties and to inflict and impose
such other punishments as by said laws, ordinances or resolutions are
ordained as a penalty for any breach thereof.

8. An appeal may be taken to the corporation court from a judg-
ment of the police justice in imposing any fines or penalties for a viola-
tion of the penal laws of the State in all cases where an appeal might
be taken from a decision of a justice of the peace. From his judgment
imposing a penalty for an infraction of a city ordinance an appeal may
he taken to the corporation court of the city, except in cases where the
penalty imposed is a fine not exceeding twenty dollars, in which cases
it shall be final.

9. He shall have the power to enforce the payment of any fine o1
penalty imposed by him for any violation of a city ordinance or reso-
lution or any State law by imprisonment in the city jail.

10. In civil suits the jurisdiction of the police justice, within the
corporate limits, shall be that of a justice of the peace, and when the
matter in controversy does not exceed twenty dollars his judgment shall
be final.

11. The police justice shall hold a court each day, except Sunday.
to take cognizance of such cases as may be brought before him under
the laws of the State or the ordinances of the city.

12. In case of the absence from the city or inability to act on the
part of the police justice, the council may designate some person to act
in his place, who, when acting, shall possess the same powers and dis-
charge the same duties as said police justice.

13. Any vacancy in the office of police justice may be filled by elec-
tion by the council. The person thus elected shall serve for the unexpired
term and until his successor shall be elected and qualified. :

14. The said police justice before entering upon the duties of his
office shall give a bond payable to the city of Lynchburg in the penalty
of ten thousand dollars, conditioned upon the faithful performance of
his duties and with security to be approved by the council of said city.

15. Nothing herein contained shall affect the power or duty of the
mayor of the city to discharge the duties hereby conferred on the police
justice until a police justice shall have been elected and qualified in
accordance with the provisions of this act. When such election and quali-
fication shall have occurred, the power and duty of the mayor to dis-
charge such duties shall cease.