Chap. 176.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 14 and 52 of chapter 482
of the acts of assembly of 1928, entitled an act to provide a new charter for
the town of Waynesboro, Virginia, and repeal all acts and parts of acts
in conflict therewith. [H B 381]

Approved March 20, 1930

I. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
fourteen and fifty-two of chapter four hundred and eighty-two of the
acts of assembly of nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 14. Emergency measures—-(a) No ordinance passed by
the council shall take effect until at least ten days from the date of its
passage, except that the council may, by the affirmative vote of the
majority of its members, pass emergency measures to take effect at the
time indicated therein.

(b) An ordinance may be enacted as an emergency measure in
all cases except that no ordinance providing for the selling or convey-
ing of any real estate or making a grant, renewal, extension of a fran-
chise or other special privileges, or regulating the rate to be charged for
its services by any public utility shall ever be so passed.

Section 52. Police agents and jurisdiction of police——Any person,
firm, association, owner or owners, or the president of any corporation,
or any industrial plant or commercial house or houses, or educational
or eleetnosynary institutions in the town or within a mile of the cor-
porate limits thereof, may, with the approbation of the town manager or
mayor, appoint one or more police agents who shall have authority in all
cases in which the rights of such person, persons, firm, association or
owner or owners, or the president of such owning corporations are
involved to exercise within the town and within one mile of the cor-
porate limits thereof, all powers which can be lawfully exercised by
any constable or police officer for the preservation of the property, the
arrest of offenders and disorderly persons, and for the enforcement of
laws against criminals; and such person, firm, association or owner or
owners, or the president of such owning corporation may remove any
such agent, and the town manager or mayor, or the successor of either
giving such consent may at any time revoke it ; and the town of Waynes-
boro may at its discretion appoint such police officer or officers as the
town manager may deem necessary to be used in and about and for
the protection of any municipal airport which the town may at any
time own or control; and any source of supply of water which may be
owned or used by the town wherever the same may be situated and any
and all other public property owned by the town of Waynesboro
wherever situated.

All of such police officers hereinabove mentioned shall qualify be-
fore the officer approving the appointment, and a record shall be kept of
their appointment and qualification; but the town shall not on account
of the approval or consent of the mayor and town manager to said ap-
pointment, be liable to said appointments for private or semi-private
institutions, be liable to any person for the negligence or acts of omis-
sion or commission of said police officers or agents.