Chap. 201.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 3 of an act entitled
an act to provide a new charter for the town of Pulaski, Virginia, and to
repeal all other acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith, approved March
16, 1910. [Hi B 234]

Approved March 14, 1928

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
two and three of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for
the town of Pulaski, Virginia, and to repeal all other acts and parts
of acts in conflict therewith, approved March sixteenth, nineteen hun-
dred and ten, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 2. The officers of said town shall consist of a mayor, eight
councilmen, a chief of police, a treasurer, who shall collect and dis-
burse all revenues and taxes of said town, and a clerk of council, who
shall be elected as hereinafter provided. The council shall have power
and authority to pass and ordain such by-laws and ordinances for the
government of said town as the council shall deem necessary, provided
the same are not in conflict with the Constitution of this State or of the
United States. The mayor and four members of the council, or in
the absence of the mayor, five members of the council, one of whom
shall act as chairman, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of
business.

Section 3. An election for mayor, councilmen, clerk of council and
treasurer, shall be held on the second Tuesday in June, nineteen hun-
dred -and twenty-eight, and every two years thereafter. The officers
so elected shall begin their term of office on the first day of September
succeeding, and shall hold their term of office for two years, or until
their successors are elected and qualified. If any vacancy occur in any
office the same shall be filled by the council. But the present incum-
bents in their respective offices shall continue in office and exercise
all the powers conferred on them at present until their successors are
duly elected and qualified.

The present office of sergeant of the town of Pulaski, Virginia, 1s
hereby abolished upon the expiration of the present term of office of
said sergeant, to-wit: On August thirty-first, nineteen hundred and
twenty-eight, and in the place and stead of a sergeant, the council of
said town shall, at their regular meeting, in the month of September,
nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, and at the same time each two
years thereafter, elect a chief of police of said town, which said chiet
of police shall have all the powers, duties and authorities formerly
held and exercised by the sergeant of said town.

Upon the expiration of the term of office of any officer of the town
of Pulaski hereinbefore or hereinafter named, by death, removal,
election of his successor, or by any other event, all books, papers,
documents, furniture, vouchers, and all other things whatsoever per-
taining to such office shall be immediately delivered up and turned
over by such officer, or by his personal representative, if he be dead,
to his successor in office, and any person who shall violate this section
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof
shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five
hundred dollars.