Chap. 64.-An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 47 of an act entitled “an
act to provide a new charter for the town of Clintwood, in Dickenson county,”
approved March 3, 1894, in relation to licensing motor vehicle owners.

[H B 165]

Approved February 24, 1936

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
forty-seven of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the
town of Clintwood, in Dickenson county, approved March third,
eighteen hundred and ninety-four, be amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows:

Section 47. The council may grant or refuse licenses to owners or
keepers of wagons, drays, carts, hacks and other wheeled carriages
kept or employed in the town for hire, and may require the owners or
keepers of wagons, drays and carts using them in the town to take out
license therefor, and may assess and require taxes to be paid thereon,
and subject the same to such regulations as they may deem proper, and
may prescribe their fees and compensation; and the town council shall
have power to require every owner or operator of a motor vehicle
residing in said town, on a date to be designated by the council, to an-
nually register such motor vehicle and obtain a license to operate the
same by making application to the treasurer of said town, and to require
said owner to pay an annual license fee therefor, to be fixed by the
council, but said license fee shall not exceed the amount charged by the
State on said machine, and the said license fee may be divided into
quarterly payments as the council may deem proper.