Chap. 392.—An ACT to aménd and re-enact section 2942 of the Code of 1919,
as amended by chapter 367 of the acts of the General Assembly of 1920.

{H B 298]
Approved March 24, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion twenty-nine hundred and forty-two of the Code of nineteen hun-
dred and nineteen, as amended by chapter three hundred and sixty-
seven of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia of nineteen hun-
dred and twenty, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 2942. City or town manager plan—Under this plan all the
legislative powers of the city or town, however conferred or pos-
sessed by it, are hereby vested in a council of three or five members,
in cities or towns of ten thousand inhabitants or under; and of from
five to eleven members in cities of above ten thousand inhabitants.
Said council shall be elected at large, and shall have the duty of
appointing the city or town manager, as the case may be, who need
not be a resident of the city or town, or of the State. The council
shall elect one of its members to preside over its meetings, who shall
be ex-officio mayor; he shall be elected for a term of two years, and
any vacancy in the office shall be filled by election by the council
for the unexpired term; and the mayor shall have the same powers
and duties as other members of the council, with a vote, but no veto,
and shall be the official head of the city or town. With the exception
of those officers required by the Constitution of the State to be elected
by popular vote, the members of the council shall be the only elective
city or town officials.