Chap. 23.—An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 2 of an act to incorporate the
city of Danville, approved February 17, 1890, as heretofore amended. [H B 42]

Approved February 17, 1926.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That chap-
ter two of the act entitled an act to incorporate the city of Danville,
approved February seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, as
heretofore amended, be, and it is hereby, amended and re-enacted so
as to read as follows:

CHAPTER TWO—GOVERNMENT.

Section 1. Government of the city of Danville shall be vested in
a mayor, a council, and such boards, committees and officers as are
permitted or required by law or as may be constituted and appointed
by the council.

The government of the city of Danville shall be the general coun-
cilmanic plan provided for in chapter three hundred and ninety-two
of the acts of the Virginia assembly, of nineteen hundred and sixteen,
approved March twentieth, riineteen hundred and sixteen, and the
amendments thereof as applied to the said city of Danville, with the
council composed of nine members to be elected at large, and to re-
ceive compensation as provided for by law which said government
was duly adopted at an election held in the city of Danville on April
twenty-second, nineteen hundred and twenty, duly certified by order
of the cicruit court of the city of Danville, entered April twenty-sixth,
nineteen hundred and twenty; provided, however, that the members of
the council of the city of Danville shall be elected as follows: on the
second Tuesday in June, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, there
shall be elected by the qualified voters of the city of Danville five
councilmen for a term of two years, and four councilmen for a term of
four years, and on -the second Tuesday in June of each succeeding
two years thereafter there shall be elected either five or four council-
men, as the case may be, for terms of four years each, to fill the va-
cancies to be caused by the expiration of the terms of office of the coun-
cilmen whose terms expire that year. The terms of office of the coun-
cilmen shall begin on the first day of September next following their
election. At the election to be held on the second Tuesday in June,
nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, the four candidates receiving the
highest number of votes shall be elected for a term of four years, and
the five out of the nine elected receiving the lowest number of votes
of those elected shall be elected for a term of two years. In case of
a tie between two or more candidates, between or among whom it 1s
necessary to decide whether that candidate shall have the two or the
four year term, the elder of the eldest candidate in age shall be en-
titled to the-four year term. The election of councilmen shall be
held in the manner prescribed for holding elections in the State, and
the election officers of the city of Danville shall have election ballots
prepared to hold the election according to law. The corporation court
of Danville shall report the result of the election to the council, which
report shall be recorded on the minute book of the council.

This form of government shall remain in force until changed in the
manner prescribed by law.

2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby
repealed.

3. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its pas-
sage.