Chap. 31.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 129 of the Code of Virginia,
as heretofore amended, in relation to officers of cities, so as to provide that in the
City of Danville no separate clerk shall be elected for the circuit court of such
city. [S B 71]

Approved February 17, 1942

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
one hundred and twenty-nine of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore
amended, be amended and re-enacted, as follows:

Section 129. Providing for Officers of Cities, Their Election or
Appointment and Term of Office——In each city of this Commonwealth
there shall be elected by the qualified voters thereof on the second Tues-
day in June, nineteen hundred and twenty, and every four years there-
after, a mayor, who shall be the chief executive officer of such city, whose
term of office shall begin on the first day of September succeeding his elec-
tion, and continue for four years thereafter. On the Tuesday after the
first Monday in November, nineteen hundred and twenty-one, and every
four years thereafter, the qualified voters of each of the cities of the Com-
monwealth shall elect a city sergeant, an attorney for the Commonwealth,
a city treasurer, and all other city officers elected by such qualified voters,
whose election is not otherwise provided for by law, whose term of office
shall begin on the first day of January next succeeding their election, and
continue for four years thereafter. In each city which has a court in whose
office deeds are admitted to record, except the cities of Bristol, Radford,
Buena Vista and Hopewell, there shall be elected by the qualified voters
on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, nineteen hundred
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and twenty-one, and every eight years thereafter, a clerk of such court
to be called the clerk of the corporation or hustings court, whose term of
office shall begin on the first day of February of the second year after
such election, and shall continue thereafter for eight years, and in the city
of Richmond there shall be elected also at the same time and for the same
time and for the same terms a clerk of the chancery court, and a clerk of
the law and equity court, and a clerk of the hustings court, and a clerk of
the hustings court, part two, of the city of Richmond, whose term of
office shall begin on the first day of February of the second year after
such election.

In cities having a population of thirty thousand or more, except the
cities of Danville, Roanoke and Lynchburg, there shall be elected by the
qualified voters a separate clerk of the circuit court of such city on the
Tuesday after the first Monday in November, nineteen hundred and nine-
teen, and every eight years thereafter, whose term of office shall begin on
the first day of January, succeeding his election and continue thereafter
for eight years. The clerk of the corporation court of the city of Roanoke
shall also be the clerk of the circuit court of said city, and shall perform all
the duties thereof and receive the compensation provided therefor by law.
All acts heretofore performed by the clerk of the corporation court as
acting clerk of the circuit court of said city are hereby ratified and given
the same effect as though performed by a duly elected and qualified clerk
of the circuit court.

At the expiration of the present term of the clerk of the circuit court
of the city of Lynchburg, and at the expiration of the present term of the
clerk of the corporation court for said city, or upon the occurrence of a
vacancy in either of said offices before the expiration of said terms, the
clerk of the corporation court for the city of Lynchburg shall also be the
clerk of the circuit court of said city, and shall perform all the duties
thereof and receive the compensation provided therefor by law.

In the cities of Radford, Bristol and Buena Vista there shall be
elected by the qualified voters on the Tuesday after the first Monday in
November, nineteen hundred and nineteen, and every eight years there-
after, unless such courts are sooner abolished, a clerk of such city court,
to be called the clerk of the corporation court, whose term of office shall
begin on the first day of February, following his election, and continue for
eight years thereafter, unless the said court shall be sooner abolished.

On the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, nineteen
hundred and twenty-one, and every four years thereafter, the qualified
voters of each of the cities of this Commonwealth shall elect a commis-
sioner of the revenue, whose term of office shall begin on the first day of
January next succeeding his election and continue for four years there-
after.