Chap. 76.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 25 of the charter of
the city of Richmond, as the same may have been heretofore amended.
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Approved March 23, 1923.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section twenty-five of the charter of the city of Richmond, as
same may have been heretofore amended, be, and the same is
hereby amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 25. The council, by a majority vote of all members
elected to each branch thereof, or where general appropriations
are provided, the advisory board, by a majority vote thereof,
may order local public improvements, the cost of which is to be
apportioned between the city and the abutting landowners.
Whenever such an improvement shall be ordered making or im-
proving the walkways upon then existing streets or improving
and paving then existing alleys or for the construction of sewers
by order of the council, the cost thereof shall be apportioned
between the city and the abutting landowners benefitted thereby,
unless the council shall direct that the whole cost of the im-
provement be paid out of the public treasury. In all such cases
it shall be the duty of the advisory board to ascertain and de-
termine what proportion thereof shall be borne by the city, and
what proportion shall be borne by abutting owners. The tax
or assessment thus imposed shall not be in excess of the peculiar
benefits resulting from the improvement to such abutting land-
owners but may in all cases equal such benefits; provided, how-
ever, that such cost may in any case be apportioned in pursuance
of an agreement between the council or board and said land-
owners.

The advisory board, the city and the said abutting land-
owners shall each have, respectively, all of the rights and duties
especially as to notice and the service thereof, hearing, appeals
and the acquisition of lines which are prescribed in sections
thirty hundred and sixty-eight, thirty hundred and sixty-nine,
thirty hundred and seventy and thirty hundred and seventy-one
of the Code of Virginia or any amendments thereof, and all
proceedings shall be in accordance therewith.

2. The public interest requiring that this amendment of the
charter of the city of Richmond should be effective as soon as
possible, an emergency exists and this act shall take effect from
its passage.