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 | 1920 |
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Law Number | 250 |
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Law Body
Chap. 250.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 7, 10 and 12 of an act
entitled an act to incorporate the town of South Hill, Mesienburg Ses
Virginia, approved February 16, 1901, as heretofore amended. {H B 488]
Approved March 16, 1920.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tions seven, ten and twelve of an act entitled an act to incorporate
the town of South Hill, Mecklenburg county, Virginia, approved Feb-
ruary sixteenth, nineteen hundred and one, as heretofore amended, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows: |
Sec. 7. Where, by the provisions of law, the council have author-
ity to pass ordinances on any subject, they may prescribe punishment
by fine or imprisonment, or both, for all violations whereof. Fines
may be recovered, with costs, upon warrants issued in the name of the
town of South Hill, before the mayor or any councilman of said town,
whenever judgment is rendered against any person for a fine, the
officer trying the offender may require immediate payment thereof,
and in default of such payment may commit the party so in default
to jail until such fine and costs be paid, or may compel him to work
out such fine and costs on the public streets, or ways, or other im-
provements of said town upon such terms as the council may by
ordinance prescribe. All fines for the violation of the ordinances 0
said town shall be paid into the treasury thereof, and be appropriated
as the council may determine.
Sec. 10. To meet the expenditures that may be lawfully charge-
able to the said town, the council may annually levy a town levy of
so much as in its opinion may be necessary upon all taxable persons
and property, resident or situate, within the said town, not exempted
from taxation by the laws of the State; provided, that a corporation
tax not greater than one dollar per head on the male inhabitants of
the said town over the age of twenty-one years, except those pen-
sioned by the. State for military service, may be levied in any one
year; and, provided further, that the tax so levied on the real and
personal property within the said town does not exceed one dollar and
fifty cents on the one hundred dollars of the assessed value thereof
for any one year.
Sec. 12. Bonds may be issued by the said town for such purposes
and in such manner as are prescribed by chapter one hundred and
twenty-two of the Code of Virginia, or any other general statute on
the subject of bond issues by towns.
An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its
passage.