Chap. 241.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 12 of an act entitled an act
to provide a new charter for the town of Front Royal, Warren county, Vir-
ginia, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith, approved
March 11, 1916, as heretofore amended. [S B 246]

Approved March 27, 1934
1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section

tyzpalvva nf an art antitled an act tan nravide a new charter far the tawn
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 12. Public utilities——The council shall have full control
and regulation over the public utilities now owned or that may hereafter
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 necessary 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 proper
conduct, management and maintenance of the public utilities now owned
by the said town, or such as may hereafter be acquired by it; and-the
council 1s hereby authorized and empowered to supply electric current
to persons, firms, associations and corporations not further distant than
fifteen miles from the corporate limits of the town, and to charge
therefor for which purpose the said council is specifically authorized
and empowered to construct, purchase, lease or otherwise acquire neces-
sary transmission lines, and to purchase, lease or otherwise acquire
such rights of ways as may be necessary for such purposes.

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

The said council, however, shall have no authority to sell its public
utilities, without first submitting the question of such sale at a special
election to be called for that purpose only, to the qualified voters of the
town of Front Royal, which election shall be conducted as now pro-
vided by general law governing special elections. The circuit court of
Warren county, or the judge thereof in vacation, shall order such
special election upon the petition of two hundred qualified voters of 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 prior
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
election shall be determined by existing statutes governing other special
elections.