Chap. 494.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2945 of the Code of Vir-
ginia as amended by an act approved March 20, 1920. [H B 124]

Approved March 28, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion twenty-nine hundred and forty-five of the Code of Virginia, as
amended by an act approved March twentieth, nineteen hundred and
twenty, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 2945. Appointment of city or town officers and employees.
—The council of any city or town that has already, or may hereafter
idopt, the city or town manager plan of government, may, by a
majority vote of all the members elected to such council, abolish any
board or commission of such city or town, except the school board,
or the sinking fund board or commission, and may delegate and dis-
tribute the duties, authority, and powers of the boards or commis-
sions abolished, except the power of election or appointment formerly
»xercised by such board or commission, to the city or town manager,
or to any other officer of the city or town it may think proper.

The provisions of this statute shall include specifically the board
of police commissioners; the board of fire commissioners; the board
of health; the board of overseers of the poor; the farm board, and
the park and forestry commission, and all other boards or commis-
sions of a similar character of such cities and towns as shall adopt
or have adopted such manager plan, except the school board and
the sinking fund board or commission ;- and when any such board
Or commission has been or shall be abolished, the officers or em-
ployees formerly appointed or employed by such board or commis-
sion, as well as such other officers and employees as the council of
such city or town shall determine are necessary for the proper ad-
ministration of the city or town, whether such officials or employees
be State or municipal, with the exception of those in the financial.
legal and judicial departments, and the clerical and other attendants
of the council, shall be appointed and may be removed by the city
manager, who shall report each appointment or removal to the coun-
cil at the next meeting thereof following any such appointment or
removal.

In the event of the abolition of any such board or commission,
those to whom the duties of the abolished board or commission may
be delegated or distributed, and those who may be appointed by the
city manager in the exercise of the powers formerly exercised by
such board or comniission, shall discharge all of the duties, exercise
all of the powers and authority, and both they, and the city or town
by which they are appointed or employed, shall enjoy the immuni-
ties and exemptions from liability or otherwise that were enjoyed
by the abolished boards or commissions, or by their appointees, prior
to the adoption of said city manager plan of government, except inso-
far-as such duties, powers, authority, immunities and exemptions
had been or hereafter may be changed according to law.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its
passage.