Chap. 264.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1014, 19 and $2 of an act
entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the
town of South Norfolk, in the county of Norfolk. approved September 11.
1919, as heretofore amended, which town has since become the city of
South Norfolk, and to provide a charter for the city of South Norfolk,
approved March 20, 1924. [HB 478]

Approved March 23, 1926.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tions ten and one-half, nineteen and thirty-two of an act entitled an
act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the
town of South Norfolk, in the county of Norfolk, approved September
eleventh, nineteen hundred and nineteen, as heretofore amended,
which town has since become the city of South Norfolk; and to provide
a charter for the city of South Norfolk, approved March twentieth,
nineteen hundred and twenty-four, be amended and re-enacted so as
to read as follows:

Section 10%. The council may create and maintain a fire de-
partment.

Section 19. The common council shall judge of the election, qual-
ifications and return of its members; may.ccmpel the attendance of
absent members and punish and fine them for disorderly behavior.
The members of the council shall severally receive compensation at
the rate of twenty dollars per month; provided, however, that if any
member fail to attend one or more meetings of the said council during
any month his compensation for such month shall be such proportion
of the monthly compensation as the number of meetings attended by
him bears to the number of meetings held by the said council.

Section 32. All fines and penalties imposed and collected for
violations of city ordinances, rules, regulations and by-laws shall be
for the use of said city and shall be turned into the city treasury.

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