Chap. 63.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide a new
charter for the town of Pearisburg, Virginia, and to repeal all acts in conflict,
approved March 21, 1914. [H B 121]

Approved February 27, 1932

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an
act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Pearis-
burg, Virginia, and to repeal all acts in conflict, approved March
twenty-first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, be amended and re-en-
acted so as to read as follows: |

Section 1. The boundaries of the town of Pearisburg shall be
one-third of a mile west, one-third of a mile north, one-third of a
mile east, and one-third of a mile south from the court house, and
embracing the area contained therein, so as to make the said area
four-ninths of a square mile.

Section 2. The officers of the said town shall be a mayor and
six councilmen, to be elected by the qualified voters of the town, and
a recorder and a sergeant to be appointed by the council, all of whose
compensation shall be fixed by the council.

Section 3. The present officers of said town shall continue as
such until the expiration of the term for which they were elected, or
appointed, or until their successors are elected and/or appointed and
qualified.

Section 4. The territory within the boundaries of the said
town of Pearisburg shall constitute a separate road precinct, and it
shall be the duty of the council of said town to lay off streets, walks,
and alleys; alter and improve the same, and have them kept in good
order, and it shall be the duty of the county treasurer of Giles county,
and he is hereby required to pay over to and settle with the council
of the said town all the road taxes collected by him on real and per-
sonal property within the limits of the said corporation, instead of
the board of supervisors of the said county, and the said council
may, by proper ordinance, regulate the hauling in and over the said
streets and roads in said corporation, and shall have power to impose
fines and penalties for the abuse of same.

Section 5. The council of said town shall have power to lay and
levy a tax not exceeding one dollar on the one hundred dollars value
of all property, real and tangible personal, in the said town, and a
poll tax not exceeding fifty cents on each resident thereof, over the
age of twenty-one years, to be expended as the council may direct,
and the said town shall have like powers of distress and other process
for the collection of its said taxes as are given for the collection of
State taxes.

Section 6. The said council shall have the power to pass all
ordinances for the proper government of the said town not in con-
flict with the Constitution and general statutes of the Commonwealth,
and to that end shall have and exercise all the powers and privileges
conferred upon towns of less than five thousand inhabitants, so far as
the same are not inconsistent with the provisions of this act.

2. Anemergency existing, this act shall be in force from its passage.