Chap. 11.—An ACT to amend Section 26 of an act entitled “An act to provide
a new charter for the town of Shenandoah, and to repeal all other acts
inconsistent with this act”, approved March 17, 1926, so as to confer additional
powers on the council of the said town. [S B 150]

Approved February 18, 1938

I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-six of an act entitled “An act to provide a new charter for
the town of Shenandoah, and to repeal all other acts inconsistent with
this act”, approved March seventeenth, nineteen hundred and twenty-
six, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 26. The town council may make ordinances and by-laws
for carrying into effect the provisions of this act; may enact ordi-
nances to secure and promote the general welfare of the inhabitants
of the town, including the right to appropriate and pay over to any
person, firm, corporation or association, as an inducement for the
ocation of any plant, manufacturing establishment or industry within
ts corporate limits, such reasonable sum or sums as may be necessary
‘or such purpose, or, in lieu of such payment or in addition thereto,
o acquire such lands and buildings, or to acquire such lands and
rect such buildings thereon, as may be necessary for the use of
uch plant, establishment or industry, and to lease or sell such land
ind buildings to such person, firm, corporation or association at such
rice and on such terms and conditions as it may deem advisable;
nay prescribe fines and other punishments for the violation of any
of the ordinances of the town; may levy and impose privileges and
all other kinds of taxes not prohibited by State law; provided, that
said tax levy shall be laid at the first regular meeting of the council
in August, or as soon thereaiter as possible; may prevent any animals
or fowls from running at large on the streets of the town, and sub-
ject such animals or fowls to such confiscation, penalties, et cetera,
and impose such fines on the owners thereof, as it may deem proper;
may impose taxes not prohibited by the general laws on all animals
in the town; may prohibit cruelty to animals or fowls, and provide
penalties therefor; may restrain and punish beggars, peddlers and
vagrants; may prevent and disperse riots; disturbances and unlawful
or disorderly assemblages; may suppress houses of illfame and bawdy
houses, and may provide that upon evidence of general reputation
that such houses, or other places, are used for the purpose of lewdness,
the same shall be abated as nuisances; may punish and prohibit wager-
ing and betting regardless of the amount won or lost; may prevent
or restrain indecent or lewd conduct, pictures or exhibitions in the
town; may prohibit immoral and lewd picture shows, or motion pic-
tures calculated to injure the morals of the town; may prevent the
coming into the town of persons having no ostensible means of sup-
port, and of persons who may be dangerous to the peace and safety
of the town; may offer rewards for the apprehension of persons com-
mitting felonies in the town, not to exceed one hundred dollars in
each case; to prescribe rules and regulations for the location and
orderly building of blacksmith shops, garages, and all other shops,
structures and control or prevent the storage of firecrackers, gun-
powder or other works manufactured or prepared therefrom, kerosene
oil, gasoline, or other combustible materials. .

- To compel the abatement and removal of all nuisances within the
said town at the expense of the person or persons causing the same
or the owner or occupant of the ground or premises wherein the same
may be found, and to require all lands and lots and other premises
within the town to be kept clean and sanitary and free from stagnant
water, weeds, filth and unsightly deposits or to make them at the
expense of the owners or occupants thereof; to regulate or prevent
slaughterhouses or other noisome and offensive business within the
town and generally to define, prohibit, abate and suppress and pre-
vent all things detrimental to the health, morals, safety, convenience
and welfare of its inhabitants.

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