CHAPTER 30

A.V ACT to amend Chapter 280, as amended, of the Acts of As-
sembly of 19382, approved March 24, 1932, being the Charter of
the City of Alerandria, Virginia by adding thereto a new sec-
tion numbered 41-a, to empower the City of Alerandria to
impose, levy and collect a consumer or subscriber tax upon the
amount paid for public utility services.

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Approved February 20, 1950

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That chapter two hundred eighty, as amended, of the Acts of
Assembly of nineteen hundred thirty-two, approved March twenty-
four, nineteen hundred thirty-two and being the charter of the City
of Alexandria, Virginia, be amended by adding a new section num-
bered forty-one-a as follows:

§ 41-a. Consumer or subscriber tax on public utility services.
—In addition to the other powers conferred by law, the city shall
have power to impose, levy and collect, in such manner as its
council shall 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.

The City of Alexandria may impose, levy and collect such a
tax, by an ordinance, which tax may become effective at any time
after the passage of this act.

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