Chap. 316.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 19, 20, 21 of an act entitled
an act to provide a charter and special form of government for the city of
Norfolk, and to repeal the existing charter of sail city, approved March 14,
1906, and the several acts amendatory thereof, approved respectively March
12, 1908, March 14 908, March 7, 1912, March 13, 1912, March 13, 1914,
March 17, 1914, March 24, 1914, March 25, 1914, March 25, 1914, February
§, 1915, March 4, 1916, March 11, 1916, March 16, 1916, March 17, 1916,
March 20, 1916, March 20, 1916, and March 20, 1916, and all other acts and
parts of acts inconsistent with this act so far as they relate to the said city
of Norfolk, approved February 7, 1918. [Hi B 387]

Approved March 21, 1928

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
nineteen, twenty, and twenty-one of an act entitled an act to provide a
charter and special form of government for the city of Norfolk, and
to repeal the existing charter of said city, approved March fourteenth,
nineteen hundred and six, and the several acts amendatory thereof,
approved, respectively, March twelfth, nineteen hundred and eight;
March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and eight; March seventh, nine-
teen hundred and twelve; March thirteenth, nineteen hundred and
twelve; March thirteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen; March
seventeenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen; March twenty-fourth,
nineteen hundred and fourteen; March twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred
and fourteen; March twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and fourteen;
February fifth, nineteen hundred and fifteen; March fourth, nineteen
hundred and sixteen: March eleventh. nineteen hundred and sixteen;
March sixteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen: March seventeenth,
nineteen hundred and sixteen; March twentieth, nineteen hundred and
sixteen; March twentieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen; and March
twentteth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and all other acts and parts of
acts inconsistent with this act, so far as they relate to the said city of
Norfolk, approved February seventh, nineteen hundred and eighteen ;
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Nomination of Candidates

Section 19. Candidates for the council, under the provisions of this
charter, shall be nominated as other city officers are nominated.

Acceptances

Section 20. Candidates for office will signify their acceptance of
such candidacy as other candidates for city office do.

Ballots
Section 21. The ballots used in all elections provided for in this

charter for the election of councilmen shall be without party marks or
designation.
Provided, however, that the provisions of this act amending sections
nineteen, twenty, and twenty-one of the charter of the city of Norfolk,
shall not become effective until said amendments shall have been first
approved by the vote of a majority of the qualified voters of the city
of Norfolk, voting thereon at the election to be ordered and held as is
provided for in the next following section numbered section twenty-
one-a.

Section 2la. Be it further enacted by the general assembly of Vir-
ginia, That as soon as may be after this act is in force, it shall be the
duty of the keeper of the rolls of the general assembly to certify a
copy of this act to the corporation court of the city of Norfolk, and
upon the receipt of the same by the said court or judge, it shall be the
duty of the said court or judge, as the case may be, forthwith to enter
an order calling and fixing November 6, 1928, as the date for the hold-
ing of an election for the purpose of submitting the foregoing amend-
ment to the charter of the city of Norfolk to the electors of the city,
qualified to vote on November 6, 1928. As soon as such election is
ordered it shall be the duty of the city clerk, at least ten days before
such election, to cause such proposed amendment to be published for
five successive issues in one or more newspapers having a general cir-
culation in the city of Norfolk. The ballots used in such election shall
state the object of the election as follows: “To ratify or reject the
proposed amendment to the charter of the city of Norfolk, authorized
by an act of the general assembly, approved on the................ day of
vosecssessceeeeeeeeeeees , Nineteen hundred and twenty-eight,” and below the
following propositions in order here set forth:

“For Amendment”
and
“Against Amendment”

In any such election the voter shall draw a line with a pen or pencil
through the proposition he does not wish to vote for, leaving the prop-
osition that he does wish to vote unscratched. If a majority of the
qualified voters voting in said election vote in favor thereof, it shall,
upon the ascertainment and certification of the result of such election
by the commissioners of election to the corporation court of Norfolk
or the judge thereof in vacation, and upon the entry upon the records
of the said court of the result, then and in that case the said proposed
amendment shall at once become a part of the charter of the city of
Norfolk, and in either case it shall be the duty of the said corporation
court. or the judge thereof in vacation, to forthwith cause a copy of
the order showing the result of the said election to be forwarded to
the mayor of the city of Norfolk, and another copy to the citv clerk;
and all provisions of other acts or part of acts providing or amend-
ing the charter of the citv of Norfolk and all ordinances or resolutions
of the council of the city of Norfolk now in force, inconsistent with
the said proposed amendment are and shall be, as of the date aforesaid,
repealed; and all other provisions of the present charter of the city
of Norfolk and of the resolutions and ordinances passed in pursuance
thereof, not so inconsistent, are hereby retained in force and effect.

2. By reason of the fact that a city election will be held on the sec-
ond Tuesday in June, an emergency is declared to exist, and this act
shall be in force from its passage.