Chap. 194.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3l-a as amended, and section
46 of an act entitled “an act to provide a new charter for the city of
Roanoke and to repeal the existing charter of said city and the several acts
amendatory thereof, and all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this
act so far as they relate to the city of Roanoke,’ approved March 22, 1924,
section 3l-a being in relation to the bail commissioners, and section 46 in
relation to the sinking fund commission, and to declare an emergency. |

[H B 158]
Approved March 14, 1936

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty-one-a as amended, and section forty-six of an act entitled an act
to provide a new charter for the city of Roanoke and to repeal the
existing charter of said city and the several acts amendatory thereof,
and all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act so far as they
relate to the city of Roanoke, approved March twenty-second, nineteen
hundred and thirty-four, be amended and re-enacted so as to read
as follows:

Section 3l-a. Bail—The hustings court of the city of Roanoke, or
the judge thereof in vacation, may appoint one or more of the com-
missioners in chancery of the said court, bail commissioner or bail com-
missioners for such city. Such bail commissioner shall have the same
powers and duties in respect to the city of Roanoke as bail commis-
sioners for counties have in respect to their counties, and a bail com-
missioner shall hold office at the pleasure of the judge of the hustings
court. All fees collected by a bail commissioner shall be paid into the
city treasury and the bail commissioner shall be paid a salary to be
determined by the city council.

In order that there shall be at all times some officer at the municipal
building empowered to grant bail in misdemeanor cases, the chief of
police or the ranking officer on duty and present at the police station
shall, at all times in the absence of the civil and police justice or his
assistant have the same power to admit to bail persons arrested on
charges of misdemeanor and brought to the police station as a justice
of the peace. The sergeant of the city of Roanoke, Virginia, and any
and all of his regularly employed deputies shall at all times have the
same power to admit to bail persons arrested and brought to the police
station, as bail commissioners except as to persons charged with murder,
manslaughter, malicious shooting, burglary, robbery from the person by
violence, arson, rape or attempted rape. It shall be the duty of officers
empowered by this section so to do to admit to bail in proper cases all
persons applying therefor and offering adequate security. No police
officer, sergeant or deputy sergeant shall receive any fee for his services
in admitting persons to bail, in addition to his regular salary.

Section 46. Sinking fund commission.—The president of the coun-
cil, the city treasurer, the city auditor, and either one or two, as the
council may determine, resident freeholders of the city shall compose
the sinking fund commission, the freehold member, or members, to be
appointed by the council for successive terms of three years, and to be
ineligible to hold any other citv office, either elective or appointive, at
any time during his, or their, incumbency.
There shall be set apart from the resources of the city a sum equal
to one and one-half per centum per annum of the aggregate debt not
payable within one year, whether contracted heretofore or hereafter.
The fund thus set apart shall be called the sinking fund, and shall be
applied to the payment of the debt of this city as it shall become due,
and if no part be due or payable it shall be invested in the bonds or
certificates of debt of this city; or of the State of Virginia, or of the
United States, or some State of the Union. Said fund shall be subject
to the orders and management of the sinking fund commission. Said
sinking fund commission shall report to council the condition of said
fund on the first day of July and January of each year or oftener if
required by council; provided, however, that if serial bonds are issued,
then no sinking fund shall be provided therefor.