Chap. 568.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly o:
Virginia, approved March 14, 1924, entitled an act to amend and re-enact!
an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 6, 1906, entitlec
an act to incorporate the town of Virginia Beach, in the county of Princes:
Anne, Virginia; and to define the boundaries of the said town of Virginiz
Beach, as set forth in the said act of the general assembly of Virginia
approved March 6, 1906, and in an order of the circuit court of Princes:
Anne county, Virginia, entered on the twenty-eighth day of may a 197

Became a law without the Governor’s signature March 22, 1926.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March fourteenth, nine.
teen hundred and twenty-four, entitled an act to amend and re-enact
an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March sixth.
nineteen hundred and six, entitled an act to incorporate the town of
Virginia Beach, in the county of Princess Anne, Virginia, and to define
the boundaries of the said town of Virginia Beach as set forth in the
said act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March sixth,
nineteen hundred and six, and in an order of the circuit court of Prin-
cess Anne county, Virginia, entered on the twenty-eighth day of May,
nineteen hundred and twenty-three, be amended and re-enacted so as
to read as follows:

Section 1. That the territory hereinafter described, and the in-
habitants thereof, shall be a body corporate and politic, to be known
and designated as the town of Virginia Beach, and as such shall exer-
cise all the functions of a municipal corporation, shall have perpetual
succession, may sue and be sued, contract and be contracted with, and
have a corporate seal which it may alter, renew, or amend at its
pleasure; provided, however, that the territory described in clause
(b) of this section, which was annexed to the town of Virginia Beach
by an order of the circuit court of Princess Anne county, Virginia,
entered on the twenty-eighth day of May, nineteen hundred and
twenty-three, shall be subject to the terms, conditions, and provisions
of said order.

The following is a description of the territory above referred to:

(a) The territory described in the above mentioned act, approved
March sixth, nineteen hundred and six:

Beginning at a point in the county of Princess Anne, on the At-
lantic ocean, where the Chautauqua by the sea and W. H. Hall’s line
adjoin; thence running northerly along Atlantic ocean to twenty-
sixth street to Linkhorn bay; thence running southerly along Linkhorn
bay and following the westerly boundary of the Virginia Beach devel-
opment company’s property until it strikes Parks avenue, as shown
on the plat of Virginia Beach, recorded with the deed to Robert M.
Hughes, duly recorded in the clerk’s office of Princess Anne circuit
court, July twenty-first, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven; thence
running south down the center of Parks avenue through the property
now or formerly the Atlantic investment company until it strikes the
lines of the Virginia Beach development company’s property; thence
following the boundary of the Virginia Beach development company’s
property to a cove in Lake Rudee; thence running eastwardly along
the southern boundary of the Virginia Beach development company’s
property to a point in Hall’s line; thence eastwardly in a straight line
to the point of beginning.

(b). The territory described in a certain order entered by the
circuit court of Princess Anne county, Virginia, on the twenty-eighth
day of May, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, in the annexation
proceedings of town of Virginia Beach against board of supervisors of
Princess Anne county, Virginia:

Beginning at the northwestern corner of the corporate limits of the
town of Virginia Beach, which is located in an arm of Linkhorn bay,
and running thence northwestwardly down the center of said arm of
said Linkhorn bay and continuing thence down the center line of said
Linkhorn bay proper as it meanders, until said line intersects with a
line extended or prolonged in a straight line from the shore of the
northern side of a road which constitutes, in part, the northern boun-
dary of the property of the Virginia Beach development company,
known as Linkhorn park, as shown on a plat or map of Linkhorn park
property of Virginia Beach development company, recorded in the
clerk’s office of Princess Anne county, Virginia, in map book five,
page one hundred and fifty-one; thence eastwardly along the northern
side of said road to a point marked ‘‘Walnut” on said map or plat;
thence in an eastwardly direction to a point marked ‘‘Hickory”’ on
said map or plat; thence northeastwardly along the center line of a
ravine to Crystal Lake, on said map or plat; thence across Crystal
Lake in a line drawn northeastwardly from the center line of said
ravine to a point where the northern side of an extension of a road
known as ‘‘Holly Road,’ would intersect with the eastern shore of
said Crystal Lake, as shown on said map; thence in a southeasterly
direction along the eastern side of said extension of said road to a point
where the southern line of the property of the Holly Beach corporation
intersects with said road as shown on said map, which said line is a
prolongation or extension of the northern line of Fortieth street ; thence
in an easterly direction along said last mentioned line and the northern
side of Fortieth street to the Atlantic ocean; thence southwardly along
the Atlantic ocean to the northern boundary of the present town of
Virginia Beach where it intersects with said Atlantic ocean; thence
westwardly along the northern boundary line of the present town of
Virginia Beach to the point of beginning.

Section 2. There shall be a mayor and six councilmen, all of
whom shall be electors of said town, who shall constitute the council
of said town, and shall be elected by the qualified electors of said town
at the general election to be held on the second Tuesday in June, nine-
teen hundred and twenty-four, and every two years thereafter, and
shall enter upon the duties of their office on the first day of September
next succeeding their election, and shall continue in office until their
successors are elected and qualified.

Section 3. There shall be a clerk and treasurer, both offices being
filled by one person, who shall be an elector of said town and shall be
elected by the qualified voters of said town at the general election to
be held on the second Tuesday in June, nineteen hundred and twenty-
six, and every two years thereafter, and who shall enter upon the duties
of his office on the first day of September next succeeding his election,
and shall continue in office until his successor is elected and qualified ;
said clerk and treasurer shall be paid a salary of not less than eighteen
hundred dollars per year out of the treasury of the town, and the
council of the town shall make provision therefor, and such clerk and
treasurer shall receive no other compensation for his services. The
duties of said officer shall be prescribed by the council.

Section 4. There shall be a police justice for said town who shall
be an elector of said town and shall be elected by the council of said
town at its first regular meeting in September, nineteen hundred and
twenty-six, and every two years thereafter; and who shall enter upon
the duties of his office immediately upon qualification in the manner
prescribed by law for the qualification of justices of the peace, and
shall continue in office until his successor is elected and qualified.
The said police justice shall have the same jurisdiction for the trial
of criminal cases and the violation of town ordinances as is granted to
the mayors of towns by the laws of the State of Virginia; he shall re-
ceive as compensation for his services the same fees that are allowed
by law to the justices of the peace, or in lieu thereof, such compensa-
tion as the council may prescribe.

Section 5. The said town, its council, and its officers,.shall have
all the rights, privileges, and powers conferred by the general laws of
this Commonwealth upon towns, town councils and town offers.
Section 6. In addition to the powers herein and by general law
conferred, the council of said town shall have the following powers:

To enter into contracts for supplying the town and its inhabitants
with water, gas, electric current and other public utilities; to issue
bonds and other obligations for municipal purposes; to levy and collect
taxes and assessments on persons, property, privileges, amusements,
businesses, professions and occupations; to issue licenses for the con-
duct or operation of privileges, amusements, businesses, professions
and occupations; to make and collect charges and fees therefor; tc
establish, impose and enforce water rates and charges for public
utilities or other services, productions or conveniences operated,
rendered, or furnished by the town; to establish zoning districts and
adopt and endorse building regulations and restrictions; to alter
change and close streets, lanes, and alleys; to provide for the pre-
servation of the general health of the inhabitants of said town, and tc
make all necessary, proper, or convenient sanitary regulations; tc
exercise full police powers and establish and maintain a department o1
division of police; to do all things whatsoever necessary, proper, ex-
pedient, or convenient for promoting or maintaining the general wel.
fare, comfort, education, morals, government, health, trade, com.
merce, and industries of the town or its inhabitants; to make and en.
force all ordinances, resolutions, rules and regulations necessary, ex:
pedient or convenient for the purpose of carrying into effect the power:
conferred herein, or by any general law and to provide and impose
suitable penalties for the violation of such ordinances, resolutions
rules and regulations, or any of them, by fine not exceeding five hun.
dred dollars or imprisonment not exceeding six months, or both
The said town may maintain a suit to restrain, by injunction, the
violation of any ordinance or resolution notwithstanding such ordi.
nance or resolution may provide punishment for its violation.

Section 7. The present mayor and councilmen shall continue ir
office until the expiration of their term of office or until their successor:
shall have been elected and qualified.

Section 8. To improve local conditions at once, an emergency 1:
declared and this act shall be in force from its passage.