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 | 1916 |
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Law Number | 346 |
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Chap. 346.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 7, 9 and 48 of ar
act entitled an act to define the corporate limits and charter of th
city of Williamsburg, approved March 17, 1884, as amended by an ac!
approved March 5, 1900. (H. B. 574.)
Approved March 20, 1916.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, Tha’
sections seven, nine and forty-eight of an act entitled an act t
define the corporate limits and charter of the city of Williams
burg, approved March seventeenth, eighteen hundred and eighty
four, as amended by an act approved Marth fifth, nineteen hun
dred, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
The municipal officers of said city shall consist of :
mayor, six (6) councilmen, a city sergeant, a treasurer and :
commissioner of the revenue, to be elected by the qualified voter
of said city, and such additional policemen as may be require
to properly police and protect the said city, to be appointed b
the city council for such time as to said council may seem prope!
and upon such salary as said council may prescribe.
9. The power and authority of said mayor and councilme
shall, in addition to those mentioned and authorized by this ac
be such as are mentioned and prescribed by section ten hundre
and thirty-eight, chapter forty-four, Code of Virginia, eightee
hundred and eighty-seven, as amended, except that the said
council shall not levy in addition to capitation, a greater tax for
all purposes than at the rate of five dollars ($5) upon the one
hundred dollars ($100) value of real and personal property
within the corporate limits.
48. For the execution of its powers and duties, the city
council may raise taxes, annually, by assessment in said city on
all subjects taxable by this State, such sums of money as they
shall deem necessary to defray the expenses of the same, and in
such manner as they shall deem expedient (in accordance with
the laws of this State and the United States) ; provided, that no
tax upon real and personal property in said city shall exceed,
in addition to the capitation, five dollars ($5) upon the one hun-
dred dollars ($100) assessed value thereof, as provided in sec-
tion nine of this act; and provided, also, that, if the council
deems it expedient, they may provide, by resolution passed by
three-fourths of the entire council, that no corporation tax
shall be levied upon machinery, implements, money and capital
of any manufacturing establishment actually in use for manu-
facturing purposes within the said town for ten years from date
of commencement of such manufacturing establishment.
2. By reason of the fact that a large manufacturing plant
will probably be located in or near the said city of Williamsburg,
which will necessitate an adequate police protection for said city,
an emergency is declared to exist and this act shall be in force
from its passage.