Chap. 4.—An ACT to amend Chapter Iv of an act rial ni iu act to provide a
charter for the city of Peters spare fprroved March 11, 1875, as amended,
by adding a new section numbered 2-b granting the ae of Petersburg the
power to levy, impose and collect a consumer or subscriber tax upon the
amount paid for the use of water, electricity, gas, telephone and any other
utility service and to provide for the collection of the same. {S 15]

Approved February 17, 1948

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That Chapter IV of an act entitled “An act to provide a
charter for the city of Petersburg”, approved March eleven, eighteen
hundred seventy-five, as amended, be further amended by adding
thereto a new section to be numbered two-b, which shall read as follows:

Section 2-b. In addition to other powers conferred by law, the
city council shall have the power to levy, impose and collect, in such
manner as it may deem expedient, a consumer or subscriber tax
upon the amount paid for the use within the city of water, electricity,
gas, telephone, and any other public utility service, or upon the
amount paid for any one or more of such public utility services used
within the city, and the council may provide that such tax shall be
added to, and collected with, bills rendered consumers for such
services.

Any such tax heretofore levied, imposed or collected by any
ordinance of the city of Petersburg and which became effective on
or after December first, nineteen hundred forty-seven, and all acts
done in pursuance of such ordinance or any amendment thereof, be,
and they are hereby, ratified and confirmed.

In addition to the other powers conferred by law, the council is
hereby empowered to raise annually by taxes and assessments such
sums of money as the council shall deem necessary for the purposes
of the city, in such manner, on such subjects and transactions, and
from such sources as council deems expedient, in accordance with
the Constitution and laws of the State and the United States.

2. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.