CHAPTER 416

An Act to amend and reenact § 2.05 of chapter 116 of the Acts of
the General Assembly of Virginia of 1948 providing a new
charter for the City of Richmond concerning certain powers of
the City so as to authorize the City to acquire and provide for
the preservation and maintenance of places of old and historic
interest,

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Approved April 5, 1950

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 2.05 of chapter 116 of the Acts of the General Assembly
of Virginia of 1948, providing a new charter for the City of Rich-
mond, be amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 2.05. Miscellaneous Powers.—The city shall also have
power:

(a) To establish, maintain and operate public employment
bureaus, public markets and public baths.

(b) To establish, maintain and operate, within and without
the city, public hospitals, sanatoria, convalescent homes, clinics
and other public institutions, homes and facilities four the care of
the sick, of children, the aged and the destitute.

(c) To provide care for the poor and have all the powers and
duties conferred and imposed on cities by the laws of the Common-
wealth relating to public assistance.

(d) To establish, own, maintain and operate, within and with-
out the city, cemeteries for the interment of the dead, fix the price
at which graves and lots therein shall be sold, make contracts for
their perpetual care and establish the rates to be charged for the
digging of graves, construction of vaults and other services.

(e) To establish, maintain and operate, within or without the
city, a jail for the confinement of prisoners, ordered or sentenced
to be confined therein, and a jail farm; and compel able-bodied
prisoners confined in the jail to work on such farm, with the ap-
proval of the hustings court of the City of Richmond.

(f{) To acquire, in the manner provided in chapter 18 of this
charter, areas, properties, lands, or any estate or interest therein,
of old and historic interest which, in the opinion of the council,
should be acquired, preserved and maintained for the use, observa-
tion, education, pleasure and welfare of the people; provide for
their renovation, preservation, maintenance, management and con-
trol as places of old and historic interest by a department of the
city government or by a board, commission or agency specially
established by ordinance for the purpose; charge or authorize the
charging of compensation for the use thereof or admission thereto;
lease, subject to such regulations as may be established by ordi-
nance, any such area, property, lands or estate or interest therein
so acquired upon the condition that the old and historic character
of the area, property or lands shall be preserved and maintained;
or to enter into contracts with any person, firm or corporation for
the management, preservation, maintenance or operatin of any
such area, property, lands or estate or interest therein so acquired
asa place of old and historic interest, provided, the city shall not
use the right of condemnation under this paragraph unless the
historic value of such area, property, lands or estate or interest
therein are about to be destroyed.