Chap. 51.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 51 of an act entitled “an act
to provide a new charter for the town of Galax, situated in part in the county
of Carroll and in part in the county of Grayson, and to repeal all other acts
inconsistent with this act,’ approved February 25, 1922, said amendment pro-
viding for licensing, or prohibiting the holding of, shows, circuses, carnivals,
fairs, et cetera, in said town, or within one mile thereof. [SB 130]

Approved February 19, 1936

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
fifty-one of an act entitled “an act to provide a new charter for the
town of Galax, situated in part in the county of Carroll and in part in
the county of Grayson, and to repeal all other acts inconsistent with
this act,” approved February twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and
twenty-two, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 51. The town council in addition to the State taxes on.
licenses, may when anything for which a license is so required is to
be done within the town, impose a tax for the privilege of doing the
same and require a license to be obtained therefor, and within the
limitations of the Constitution of this State and the United States may
levy a license tax on any other business or thing done or carried on
in the town, whether a license tax is required therefor or not by the
State; provided, however, that nothing contained in this act shall be
construed to permit the imposition of a tax or the requirement of a
license in any case where such imposition or requirement by cities and
towns is forbidden by general law; provided, further, that the said
council shall have authority to impose a license tax upon, and regulate
the location and holding of, shows, circuses, public exhibitions, carnivals
and other similar shows or fairs, or to prohibit the holding of same,
or any of them, within the town, or within one mile of the corporate
limits thereof.