Chap. 200.—An ACT authorizing the city council of Alexandria to have an
election to submit to the qualified voters of the city of Alexandria, for
ratification or rejection, a proposal for the sale of the city’s gas plant and
works. [fH B 154]

Approved March 22, 1930

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That when-
ever it is proposed by the city council of Alexandria to sell the gas
plant belonging to the said city and by recorded affirmative vote of a
majority of the members of said city council, the said council should
determine to submit the proposal for the sale of said gas plant to the
vote of the qualified voters of said city, the council shall adopt an
ordinance reciting the terms of the proposed sale of said gas plant,
which ordinance shall be upon the recorded affirmative vote of a ma-
jority of all members elected to the council, and after the adoption of
such an ordinance, a certified copy thereof shall be forthwith pre-
sented to the corporation or circuit court of said city of Alexandria
or to the judge thereof in vacation.

2. Said court or judge on receipt of the said certified copy of such
an ordinance shall, by an order entered in the term time or vacation,
direct the proper election officers of said city of Alexandria to take
such steps and prepare such means as may be necessary to submit to
the qualified voters of said city, either at the next succeeding general
election, or at a special election, for determining the question of
whether said gas plant shall be sold, and the court or judge shall make
such order as may be proper to give due publicity of such election.

3. The electoral board of the city of Alexandria shall, prior to
the date of said election, have printed at the expense of said city,
proper ballots to be voted at said election, on which shall be stated
the date of election, the terms of the proposal of said sale, and shall
also have printed on separate lines the words “for sale of gas plant”
and the words “against sale of gas plant.” All persons voting at said
election shall erase one or the other set of words and the words re-
maining shall be counted as expressing the choice and vote of the per-
son casting the ballot. Such ballots shall be delivered to the judge of
the election within five days preceding the day of election, in the same
manner as ballots are delivered to the judges of election in regular
elections.

4. Such election shall be conducted in the manner prescribed by
law for the conduct of regular elections by the regular election officers
of said city of Alexandria.

5. The poll books and the certificates of the judges of election
shall be delivered by one of the judges of election from each precinct
in said city, to the clerk of the court to which election returns are
made in regular elections, and canvassed as returns are canvassed in
regular elections, and the result thereof certified by the clerk of said
court to the judge of the court ordering said election.

6. If it shall appear from said returns that a majority of the
qualified voters voting at such election shall be against such proposed
sale of said gas plant, an order shall be entered of record accordingly,
and no other election for a similar purpose shall be held within one
year after such election; but if a majority of the qualified voters at
such election shall be in favor of such proposed sale of said gas plant,
the court or judge thereof shall enter an order accordingly, a copy
of which shall be forthwith certified by the clerk of such court to the
council, and the said city council shall be thereupon fully authorized
and empowered to negotiate the sale of said gas plant.