Chap. 28.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of an act entitled an act to
provide a new charter for the town of Parksley, in the county of Accomac, and
to repeal an act entitled an act to incorporate and provide a charter for the
town of Parksley, Virginia, approved March 12, 1904, approved Marea ie 1916.

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Approved February 18, 1924.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
eight of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of
Parksley, in the county of Accomac, and to repeal an act entitled an act
to incorporate and provide a charter for the town of Parksley, Virginia,
approved March twelfth, nineteen hundred and four, approved March
twentieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, be amended and re-enacted
to read as follows:

Section 8. The said council shall also have power to impose a
specific license tax on all shows, performances and exhibitions which
may be given in said town. It shall also have power to impose a specific
license tax on all business for which a State license tax is required, pro-
vided the same shall not exceed that now imposed by law payable into
the State treasury, and to levy annually such taxes as may be deemed
necessary on all real and personal property within said town for the
purposes of said corporation, provided that said levy shall not exceed
seventy-five cents on the one hundred dollars valuation of property as
per State assessment, provided that nothing in this section or elsewhere
in this act, shall be construed as authorizing the imposition of taxes or
license fees in any case where the imposition of said taxes or license
fees by cities and towns is prohibited by general law..

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