CHAPTER 418

AN ACT to amend and reenact Chapter II of an act entitled ‘An
Act to incorporate the City of Danville’, approved February
17, 1890, as amended, relating to form of city government
so as to provide a spectal form of government for the city;
and to repeal certain acts.
[ H 692 ]

Approved April 5, 1950

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That Chapter II of an act entitled, “An Act to incorporate
the City of Danville’, approved February seventeenth, eighteen
hundred and ninety, as amended, be amended and reenacted as
ollows:

Chapter II - Government

§ 1. The government of the City of Danville shall be *
the City Manager Plan provided for in § 15-484 of the Code
of Virginia of nineteen hundred and fifty, with the Council com-
posed of nine members to be elected at large, and to receive
compensation as provided for by law, which said government
was duly adopted at an election held in the City of Danville on
February 7, 1950, duly certified by order of the Corporation
Court of the City of Danville, entered February 9, 1950; pro-
vided that the members of the council shall be elected as fol-
lows: On the second Tuesday in June, nineteen hundred and
fifty, there shall be elected by the qualified voters of the City
of Danville five councilmen for a term of two years. and four
councilmen for a term of four years, and on the second Tuesday
of June in each succeeding two years thereafter there shall be
elected five or four councilmen, as the case may be, for terms
of four years each, to fill the vacancies to be caused by the ex-
piration of the terms of office of the councilmen whose terms
expire that year. The terms of office of the councilmen shall
begin on the first day of September next following their elec-
tion. At the election to be held on the second Tuesday in June,
nineteen hundred and fifty, the four candidates receiving the
highest number of votes shall be elected for a term of four years,
and the five out of the nine elected receiving the lowest number
of votes of those elected shall be elected for a term of two
years. In case of a tie between two or more candidates, between
or among whom it is necessary to decide whether that candi-
date shall have the two or the four year term, the elder of the
eldest candidate in age shall be entitled to the four year term.
The election of councilmen shall be held in the manner pre-
scribed for holding elections in the State, and the election offi-
cers of the City of Danville shall have election ballots prepared
to hold the electiun according to law. The Corporation Court
of Danville shall report the result of the election to the Council,
which report shall be recorded on the minute book of the Coun-
cil.

This form of government shall remain in force until
changed in the manner prescribed by law.

The term of office of the mayor of the City of Danville
holding office under the provision of the General Councilmanic
plan of government shall expire on the thirty-first day of August,
nineteen hundred and fifty.

The council whose term of office begins September the first
nineteen hundred and fifty and each succeeding council, shall
elect one of its members to preside over its meetings, who shall
be ex-officio mayor. He shall be elected for a term of two years
and any vacancy in the office shall be filled by the council for
the unexpired term. The mayor shall have the same powers and
duties as other members of the council, with a vote, but no veto,
and shall be the official head of the city.

2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are re-
pealed to the extent of such inconsistency.

3. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its pas-
sage.