Chap. 385.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 15 of the charter of the
city of Hampton as enacted by chapter 230 of the acts of assembly of 1920,
approved March 16, 1920, and section 23%4 of said charter, as enacted by
chapter 18, of the acts of assembly of 1924, approved February 13, 1924.

[H B 387]

Approved March 24, 1930

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
fifteen of the charter of the city of Hampton, as enacted by chapter
two hundred and thirty of the acts of assembly of nineteen hundred and
twenty, and section twenty-three and one-half of said charter, as en-
acted by chapter eighteen of the acts of assembly of nineteen hundred
and twenty-four, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 15: The city treasurer shall be elected at the time and in
the manner and for the term provided in section fourteen of this act.
Before entering upon the duties of his office he shall execute a bond
with a recognized surety company as surety thereon, to be approved
by the city council in a penalty not greater than the amount of city
and school revenue to be received annually by him, nor less than
twenty-five per centum thereof, payable to the city and conditioned
upon the faithful discharge of his official duties as city treasurer. The
city council shall have the power and authority to increase the said
treasurer’s bond and to require additional security thereon at any time
they may deem such increase or additional security necessary during
the treasurer’s term of office. He shall collect and keep all funds and
other monies belonging to the city and pay out the same on the order
of the council, attested by the city clerk. He shall also
collect and keep all funds and other monies belonging to the schools
of the said city and pay out the same on the order of the city school
board, in accordance with the school board’s annual budget, which
shall have been approved by the city council. He shall receive no
salary, but his compensation for the performance of his duties shall
be a commission as follows: Upon all monies collected from city
taxes, levies, assessments, fines and penalties, five per centum of all
such amounts collected, up to forty thousand dollars, ($40,000) ; three
percentum on all such amounts collected between forty and sixty thou-
sand dollars, and one percentum on all amounts collected exceeding
sixty thousand dollars ($60,000) ; provided, that his commission on the
proceeds of bonds issued by the city, or received from other sources,
he shall receive a commission only of one-fourth of one per centum;
and upon money collected or invested by the city and subsequently
paid back, he shall receive a commission of one per centum upon the
interest only collected thereon, and not upon the principal sum. In
computing the said treasurer’s commissions, he shall begin at five per
centum on January first and in the event of a vacancy in said office
of treasurer, the succeeding treasurer shall begin computing his com-
missions at the per centum rate to which his predecessor in office would
have been entitled.

There shall be an annual audit of all the books and of the treasurer
by an auditor approved by the council.

Section 2314: School district; school levies or appropriation, and
city treasurer’s commissions on school levies——The city of Hampton
shall constitute a single school district and shall have a school board
known as the school board of the city of Hampton, composed of three
members elected by the city council in the manner provided by law,
and the present school trustees shall continue to constitute the said board
until their respective terms shall terminate and their successors shall
be elected or appointed.

The said school board shall have and exercise the powers and duties
of school trustees as in other cities of the second class, under the gen-
eral laws of the State. There shall be but one superintendent of schools
for the city of Hampton and the county of Elizabeth City.

The council of the city of Hampton shall, at the same time that it
lays its levy on the property owned or taxable within the corporate
limits, include in the said levy a proper amount for the maintenance
and support of the public schools of the city, or the said council, in-
stead of making a specific levy for the support and maintenance of
said schools, may from the levy made for all purposes, make an ap-
propriation specifically for the schools. The city treasurer in com-
puting his commissions on the school levies, shall compute the same
on the amount of school levies collected by him at a rate to be fixed
by the council not in excess of one per centum.

The city school board and the superintendent of schools shall sub-
mit to the council its budget for the succeeding year at least sixty days
prior to the time that the council lays its levy or makes an appropria-
tion for the maintenance and support of the schools, which said budget
shall be made acceptable to the city council and shall be approved by
it prior to making any levy or appropriation for the schools. After
the budget has been accepted and approved by the council, all expendi-
tures made by the school board shall be strictly in accordance with the
said budget, and no expenditures shall otherwise be made by the school
board except upon the approval of the city council.