Chap. 56.—An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection (a) of section 34 of an
act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Suffolk and to
repeal the existing charter of said city and the several acts amendatory
thereof and all other acts and parts of acts ifconsistent with this act so far
as they relate to the said city of Suffolk, approved February 25, 1922.

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Approved February 26, 1926.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sub-
section (a) of section thirty-four of an act entitled an act to provide
a new charter for the city. of Suffolk and to repeal the existing charter
of said city and the several acts amendatory thereof and all other acts
and parts of acts inconsistent with this act so far as they relate to the
said city of Suffolk, approved February twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred
and twenty-two, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 34. Property taxes; lien for taxes.—(a) For the execu-
tion of its powers and duties, the council may impose a tax on property
of all kinds and classes, subject to taxation in the city, provided that
the tax on any particular class of property shall not be at a higher
rate than is or may be permitted by the State laws relating thereto;
and provided, further, that the city rate on real and tangible personal
property shall not exceed two dollars and fifty cents on each one
hundred dollars of the assessed value thereof.

2. An emergency is hereby declared to exist, and this act shall be
in force and effect from its passage.