Chap. 330.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 3, 7, 10 and 12 of an act
entitled “an act to provide a new charter for the town of Front Royal, Warren
county, Virginia, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith,”
approved March 11, 1916, as heretofore amended. [S B 189]

Approved March 25, 1932

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
two, three, seven, ten and twelve of an act entitled “an act to provide a
new charter for the town of Front Royal, Warren county, Virginia,
and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith,” approved
March eleventh, nineteen hundred and sixteen, as heretofore amended,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 2. Government of town—The government of the said
town shall be vested in a mayor, chosen as hereinafter provided, and
four councilmen. The mayor, by virtue of his office, shall be a member
of the town council, the said mayor and the councilmen to be chosen
from the residents and electors of the said town on the second Tuesday
in June, nineteen hundred and thirty-two. The said mayor shall be
lected every two years, and the two councilmen receiving the highest
vote in nineteen hundred and thirty-two shall be elected for four
years and the two councilmen receiving the low vote in nineteen hun-
lred and thirty-two shall be elected for two years, and thereafter every
wo years two members shall be elected for four year terms. The
nayor and two councilmen are to be elected every two years, the mayor
or a term of two years, and the councilmen for a term of four years.

Section 3. Officers: When to enter; vacancies and how filled —
he mayor and the four councilmen so elected shall enter upon the dis-
harge of their duties on the first day of September next succeeding
heir election, and shall continue in office until their successors are
lected and qualified; but before entering upon the discharge of their
luties, however, they shall take an oath to faithfully perform the
ame. Any vacancy occurring in the council or in the office of mayor
‘hall be filled within thirty days by a majority vote of the remaining
nembers of the council.

Section 7. Town treasurer, his powers and duties—The council
shall elect one of its members to be town treasurer during the pleasure
yf the council. The treasurer shall have charge of all monies belong-
ing to the said town, and shall deposit same in some banking institu-
‘ion to be approved by the council. He shall disperse said monies at
the direction of the council upon a voucher signed by the treasurer
and countersigned by the mayor or recorder, or both, and not other-
wise. Before entering upon the discharge of his duties, he shall exe;
cute bond payable to the town of Front Royal, to faithfully perform
his duty and honestly account for all funds coming into his hands, said
bond to be approved by the council. For any default or liability on the
part of the treasurer, the council, in the corporate name of the town
may on motion, after fifteen days notice to said treasurer, or his per-
sonal representatives, his bondsmen or personal representatives, obtain
judgment and execution before the circuit court of Warren county,
Virginia.

Section 10. Compensation of the mayor, treasurer, town recorder,
and councilmen.—The mayor shall receive a salary to be fixed by the
council, not in excess of the sum of three hundred dollars ($300.00)
per year; while the remaining councilmen shall receive a salary to be
fixed by the council, not in excess of the sum of one hundred and fifty
dollars ($150.00) per year.

Section 12. Public utilities——-The council shall have full control
and regulation over the public utilities now owned or that may here-
after be acquired by the said town, and to this end it shall have full
authority to employ from time to time such employees as it deem neces-
sary to properly maintain, conduct and operate the same; and it shall
have full authority to incur indebtedness, unless otherwise prohibited
by law, whenever the said council may deem it necessary for the prope
conduct, management and maintenance of the public utilities now
owned by the said town, or such as may hereafter be acquired by it.

The said council shall likewise have authority, by ordinance dul)
enacted, to compel all owners of real estate within the corporate limit:
of said town to connect with such sewerage pipes or connections a:
may hereafter be installed or constructed by the said town, upon suck
reasonable terms as may be prescribed by said council, together wit!
all other authority necessary to a proper maintenance and operation o.
an effective sewerage system.

The said council, however, shall have no authority to sell its publi
utilities, without first submitting the question of such sale at a specia
election to be called for that purpose only, to the qualified voters of th
town of Front Royal, which election shall be conducted as now pro
vided by general law governing special elections. The circuit cour
of Warren county, or the judge thereof in vacation, shall order such
special election upon the petition of two hundred qualified voters o!
the town of Front Royal, or upon a resolution passed by a majority of
the council of said town. For a period of not less than four weeks priot
to said special election, the substantial terms of any proposed sale shall
be published over the signature of the recorder of the said town, once
a week for four successive weeks in some newspaper published within
the county of Warren. The qualifications of voters in said special elec-
tion shall be determined by existing statutes governing other special
elections.

In view of the approaching June election an emergency is declared
to exist and this act shall be in force from its passage.

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