Chap. 201.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4, as heretofore amended, and
Section 26 of an act entitled ‘‘An Act to amend and re-enact all acts creating
and amending the charter of the city of Charlottesville, and to provide a charter
and special form of government for the said city, and to repeal all acts and
parts of acts inconsistent with this act, so far as they relate to the city of Char-
lottesville.”, approved March 24, 1922, section 4 relating to the special form
of government of said city and the municipal authorities thereof, and section 26
relating to the city sergeant and his duties. [H B 325]

Approved March 13, 1940

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That
Section four, as heretofore amended, and section twenty-six, of an
act entitled ‘“An act to amend and re-enact all acts creating and
amending the charter of the city of Charlottesville, and to provide a
charter and special form of government for the said city, and to repeal
all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act, so far as they relate
to the city of Charlottesville.’’, approved March twenty-fourth, nine-
teen hundred and twenty-two, be amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows:

Section 4. (a) The municipal authorities of the said city shall
consist of council of five members, one of whom shall be mayor, as
hereinafter set forth, unless and until this form be changed in manner
prescribed by law, a clerk of the corporation court, a Common-
wealth’s attorney, a treasurer, a sergeant, a commissioner of revenue,
a civil and police justice, two justices of the peace, who shall be
Jected by the qualified voters of the city of Charlottesville at elections
1eld at the intervals and on the days prescribed for such elections by
he laws of the State. All persons who are qualified voters of the
City of Charlottesville shall be eligible to any of the said officers.
The terms of office of all of said officers shall begin and continue for
such length of time as is prescribed by law; provided, that any one
sf said officers shall be eligible to one or more offices to be filled by
the council—that is to say, that any officer elected by the people
may hold office to which he was elected as well as one or more offices
-o which he may be elected or appointed by the council. All the
corporate powers of said city shall be exercised by said council, or
under its authority, except as otherwise provided herein.

(b) The form of government for said city shall be modified com-
mission plan as follows: All corporate powers, legislative, financial
and police authority vested in the city of Charlottesville by law shall
be and is hereby vested in a council of five members to be elected
at large from the qualified voters of the city, except as hereinafter
provided.

(c) Each of said councilmen shall receive an annual salary of
three hundred dollars each (except the president of said council, who
shall be mayor, and shall receive five hundred dollars) from the city
for their services.

(d) An election shall be held in the said city pursuant to law, at
the time for the next regular election for councilmen in June, nineteen
hundred and twenty-eight. At said election the three candidates
receiving the highest number of votes shall hold office for four years
and the two receiving the next highest number of votes shall holc
office for two years. Thereafter the term of office of the councilmer
shall be four years. As soon as the said councilmen shall qualify.
they shall meet and elect from their number a president, who shal
be mayor without veto power, and who shall preside and also have
vote on all questions.

Said council shall also elect a vice president. Said council sc
composed shall take office on September first, nineteen hundred anc
twenty-eight.

(e) It shall be the duty of the said council of five members tc
immediately elect for a period of one year a business manager, whose
title shall be city manager, at the salary to be fixed by them, whe
may be removed from office by said council at their discretion. ,

(f) Said city manager shall have full executive authority in th
management of all ministerial affairs, and shall have the right tc
employ and discharge all employees under his control. Said cit}
manager shall give a bond for the faithful performance of his dutie
for such sum as said council may require. The duties and responsi
bilities of said city manager are to be fixed by ordinance of the cit?
council. Except as said council so fixes his duties and responsibilities
the said city manager shall have the powers vested in city manager
by sections two thousand nine hundred and forty-four and tw
thousand nine hundred and forty-five of the Code of Virginia, nine
teen hundred and nineteen, and general laws amendatory thereof.
In all other respects the said council shall have and be vested
with the same authority heretofore exercised by the council, and in
all other respects their duties and liabilities shall be regulated by the
existing laws, not in conflict herewith.

Section 26. City sergeant.—The city sergeant shall attend the
terms of the corporation court of said city and shall act as the officer
thereof; the said sergeant may, with the approval of the said court,
appoint one or more deputies, who may be removed from office by
the sergeant or the said court, and may discharge any of the duties
of the office of sergeant, but the sergeant and his sureties shall be
liable therefor. The city sergeant shall also have all power and
authority and perform all duties imposed by general law upon con-
stables of cities.