Chap. 57.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 33 of an act entitled, “An
act to provide a new charter for the City of Richmond”, approved March
24, 1926. | ! : [H B 309]

Approved March 3, 1938

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion thirty-three of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter
for the city of Richmond, approved March twenty-fourth, nineteen
hundred and twenty-six, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:
Section 33. The city attorney shall keep his office in such place
as the city council may direct, and shall keep therein a docket of all
cases to which the city may be a party in any court of record, in which
shall be briefly entered all steps taken in such cases deemed by him
material; and said docket shall at all times be open to the inspection
of the mayor, city council and the members thereof; and the city
attorney shall appoint competent persons to act as his assistants, and
also a secretary and assistant secretary and clerk, and, with the con-
sent of the council, may employ an additional assistant or assistants
and such other office force as he shall deem necessary for the proper
conduct of the law department, but any or all of such assistants or
other employees may be removed at any time by the said city attorney.
The council shall fix the pay of all officers, assistants and other em-
ployees appointed by the city attorney, which may at any time be
increased or diminished by the council. The city attorney shall an-
nually, before the beginning of each fiscal year, forward to the mayor
a complete schedule showing the number and character of the officers,
assistants, clerks and other employees deemed necessary for the proper
operation of his department, showing the compensation proposed to
be paid to each, and the items and amount of expense deemed necessary
for the proper operation of his department, which shall be included in
the tentative budget of expenditures required in this charter to be
forwarded to the council.

2. All acts or parts of acts, general and special, in conflict with
the provisions of this act, be and the same are hereby repealed to
the extent of such conflict, and especially all provisions of the charter
of the city of Richmond insofar as the same conflict with the pro-
visions of this act are hereby amended so as to conform to the same.

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