Chap. 136.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2917 of the Code of Virginia,
relating to the government of cities upon their transition from cities of the
second-class to cities of the first-class, so as to provide that all the charter
provisions of any such city, and all special acts relating thereto, which becomes
a city of the first class as a result of the 1940 United States census, shall con-
tinue in force until ninety days after the adjournment of the 1942 regular
session of the General Assembly. [S B 179]

Approved March 6, 1940

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That
Section twenty-nine hundred and seventeen of the Code of Virginia,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 2917. Whenever the charter of a city of the second-class
shall in the matter of the election, apportionment, qualification,
term, or duties of any public officer (whether State or municipal), or
in the matter of the establishment of any office (whether State or
municipal), or in any other respect, conflict therein with the general
law applicable to cities of the first-class, then such general law, upon
the transition of such city from the second- to the first-class (and
thereafter until otherwise provided by act of the General Assembly
passed after such transition), shall prevail and take effect as to such
city, and such provisions of the city charter existing at the time of
such transition conflicting in the matters aforesaid with said general
law shall, upon such transition, become, and thereafter remain, in-
operative and of no effect; provided, however, that notwithstanding
the foregoing provisions of this section, or any provision of any other
statute or act to the contrary, all the charter provisions of any city
of the second-class, and all special acts relating to the government of
such city, which becomes a city of the first-class by reason of increase
of population to ten thousand or more, according to the United States
census of nineteen hundred and forty, shall continue in full force and
effect until after the expiration of ninety days from the day of ad-
journment of the regular nineteen hundred and forty-two session of
the General Assembly.