Chap. 272.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 9 and 52 of an act entitled
an act to provide a new charter for the city of Hopewell and to repeal the
existing charter of said city and the ggveral acts amendatory thereof and all
other acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act so far as they relate to
the city of Hopewell, approved March 29, 1934, section 9 being in relation to
eligibility of councilmen and section 52 in relation to borrowing money.

[H B 379]
Approved March 25, 1936

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tions nine and fifty-two of an act entitled an act to provide a new
charter for the city of Hopewell 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 Hopewell, approved March twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred
and thirty-four, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 9, Qualification of members; conduct of candidates.—
Any person qualified to vote in said city and who is an actual bona
fide resident within the corporate limits of same, shall be eligible to
the office of councilman therein. No candidate for the office of
councilman shall promise any money, office, employment, or other
thing of value, to secure a nomination or election, or expend in con-
nection with his candidacy any money except as permitted by the
general laws of the State; and any such candidate violating this
provision shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred
dollars, or imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or
both, in the discretion of the court or jury trying the case, and shall
forfeit his office, if elected; in which event, the person receiving the
next highest number of votes, who has not violated this provision,
shall be entitled to said office.

Section 52. Tax anticipation loans.—The council may from time
to time borrow money, in anticipation of the collection of the revenue
for the then current fiscal year, and to issue, from time to time, cer-
tificates, bonds, notes or other obligations therefor; provided, that
the certificates, bonds, notes or other obligations mature within one
year from the date of their issue, and the total issue of said certifi-
cates, bonds, notes or other obligations does not exceed the estimated
revenue for such year.

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