Chap. 220.—An ACT to amend section 7 of the charter of the town of Norton
and to add a new section thereto to be known as section 7-A. [S B 228]

Approved March 22, 1930

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
entitled “An act to incorporate the town of Norton, in Wise county,
Virginia,’ approved February fifteen, eighteen hundred and ninety-
four, as heretofore amended, be amended so that section seven (7)
of said act shall read as hereinafter set forth, and that the said act
be further amended by the addition thereto of a new section to be
numbered section seven-a, providing for an officer to be appointed by
the town council to collect all taxes and levies for the town of Norton.
The said amendments to read as follows:

Section 7. The sergeant shall be elected at the same time the mayor
is elected, and shall be vested with powers of a conservator of the
peace, and with powers of a constable within the corporate limits of
said town. He shall have power to arrest in said town or within the
county of Wise, upon a warrant issued by the mayor, any person
charged with a violation of the laws or ordinances of the said town,
or the commission of any crime in said town or within a mile of its
corporate limits. When a violation of the laws or ordinances of
said town is committed in his presence, he shall have authority and
power forthwith to arrest the offender without a warrant and carry
him before the mayor of said town, to be dealt with according to
law. He shall collect all fines, and costs assessed by the mayor or other
town officers, and pay over the same to the town treasurer. He shall
perform such other duties and receive such compensation as the coun-
cil may prescribe.

Section 7-A. The council of said town shall appoint some person
to be designated as the “‘tax collector” of the town of Norton, whose
duties it will be to collect all town taxes and levies, and who shall have
the power to distrain and sue therefor in like manner as a county
treasurer may distrain and sue for State or county taxes. The tax
collector shall make such settlements with the treasurer of the town
of Norton as the council may direct, and receive such compensation
as the council may prescribe.

2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby
repealed.

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