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Volume | 1950 |
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Law Number | 488 |
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CHAPTER 488
AN ACT to amend Chapter 34, Acts of Assembly of 1918, approved
February 7, 1918, as amended, which provided a charter and
special form of government for the city of Norfolk, by adding
three sections numbered 87 (a), 88 (a) and 143 (a), providing
for assessments upon abutting landowners for certain im-
provements, the assessment and equalization of assessments of
real estate for taration, and pension funds, respectively.
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Approved April 7, 1950
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That chapter thirty-four, Acts of Assembly of nineteen hun-
dred eighteen, approved February seven, nineteen hundred eighteen,
as amended, which provided a charter and special form of govern-
ment for the city of Norfolk, be amended by adding thereto three
new sections numbered eighty-seven (a), eighty-eight (a) and one
hundred forty-three (a), which said new sections shall read as
follows:
§ 87. (a). Local or special assessments. In addition to the
other powers conferred by law, the said city shall have the right
and power to impose an assessment upon abutting landowners for
making and improving the walkways upon then existing streets,
and for improving and paving then existing alleys, and for either
the construction or for the use of sewers, provided, that the assess-
ment so imposed shall not be in excess of the peculiar benefits
resulting therefrom to such abutting landowners. Such improve-
ments may be ordered by the council and the cost thereof appor-
tioned in pursuance of an agreement between the city and the
abutting landowners. And in the absence of an agreement, im-
provements, the cost of which is to be defrayed in whole or in part
by such local assessment, may be ordered on a petition from not
less than three-fourths of the landowners to be affected thereby,
or by a two-thirds vote of all the members elected to the council.
But notice shall first be given as provided by § 15-674 of the Code
of Virginia to the abutting landowners, notifying them when and
where they may appear before the council or some committee
thereof, or the administrative board or other similar board of the
city, to whom the matter may be referred, to be heard in favor
of or against such improvements. The cost of such improvement,
when same shall have been ascertained, shall be assessed or appor-
tioned by the council or by some committee thereof, or by any
officer or board authorized by the council to make such assessment
or apportionment, between the city and the abutting landowners.
Any abutting landowner aggrieved by such assessment or ap-
portionment shall have the right to appeal to the circuit or cor-
poration court of said city and the proceedings upon such appeal
shall be in conformity with §§ 15-675 and 15-676 of the Code of
Virginia.
S$ 88. (a). Assessment and equalization of assessments of
real estate.——The council of said city shall have the right and
power, in lieu of any other method prescribed by law, to provide
for the annual assessment and reassessment of real estate for taxa-
tion, and to that end may appoint a single assessor to assess such
real estate for taxation, may prescribe the duties and term of
Office of said assessor, may require that he shall give his entire
time to the duties of his office, may remove him for cause, may
fix his compensation, which shall be payable out of the local treas-
ury, and may likewise provide for such technical and clerical as-
sistance as may be necessary or advisable and for the payment
of any other expenses that may be properly incident thereto. Said
annual assessments or reassessments shall be completed by said
assessor by the thirty-first day of August of the year in which they
are made. ,
All such real estate shall be assessed at its fair market value
and the taxes for each year on such real estate shall be extended
on the basis of the last assessment made prior to such year, subject
to such changes as may have been lawfully made.
Notwithstanding any of the provisions of §§ 58-895 and 58-899
to 58-901, inclusive, of the Code of Virginia, the circuit court of
said city or the judge thereof in vacation shall, annually, appoint
for the city a board of review of real estate assessments, to be com-
posed of three members, who shall be freeholders of said city. The
terms of such members shall commence on their appointment and
shall expire on the thirtieth day of November of the year in which
they are appointed unless such terms are extended. Such court or
the judge thereof in vacation may extend the terms of the members
of the said board of review and shall fill any vacancy therein for
the unexpired term. The members of the said board shall receive
per diem compensation for the time actually engaged in the duties
of the board, to be fixed by the council of said city, and to be paid
out of the treasury of said city, provided, however, that the council
of said city may limit the per diem compensation to such number
of days as, in its judgment, is sufficient for the completion of the
work of the board.
Such board of review shall have and may exercise the power to
revise, correct and amend any assessments of real estate made by
said assessor in the year in which they serve, and to that end shall
have all the powers conferred upon boards of equalization by
§§ 58-903 to 58-912, inclusive, of the Code of Virginia. Notwith-
standing any provision of said sections, however, the board of
review may adopt any regulations providing for the oral presenta-
tion, without formal petitions or other pleadings of requests for
review, and looking to the further facilitation and simplification
of proceedings before the board.
Any person of said city aggrieved by any assessment made by
said assessor or board of review may apply for relief in the manner
provided by §§ 58-1145 to 58-1151, inclusive, of the Code of Virginia.
This section shall not apply to the assessment of any real estate
assessable under the law by the State Corporation Commission.
§ 143. (a). Pension funds.—In addition to the other powers
conferred by law, the council of said city shall have the right and
power to establish and maintain, in such manner and to such extent
and in such combination thereof as said council may deem desir-
able, a system or systems of pensions and retirement allowances for,
and death benefits for the designated beneficiaries of, the officers
and employees of said city, including policemen and firemen and
such other officers and employees whose entire compensation is paid
directly by said city but not to include officials elected by the people
or the General Assembly, and may, in their discretion, include
therein the employees in the offices of the city treasurer, commis-
sioner of revenue, city sergeant, Clerk’s office, welfare department
and health department of said city, and to that end, shall have
authority to establish a fund or funds for the payment of such pen-
Sions, retirement allowances and death benefits by making appro-
priations out of the treasury of said city, by requiring contribu-
tions from time to time from those participating in any such
system, or by any other mode not prohibited by law, or by any
combination of said methods, to make rules and regulations for the
management, investment and administration of such fund or funds,
and the payment of such pensions, retirement allowances and death
benefits, and to do all such other things that may be deemed neces-
sary or advisable to carry into effect the provisions of any such
system or systems.
The pensions accruing and to accrue to any such officer or em-
ployee or to the beneficiary thereof, under any such system, and the
accumulated contributions, securities, moneys and assets of any
such fund, are hereby exempted from State, county and municipal
taxation, and shall not be subject to execution, attachment or gar-
nishment, or any other process whatsoever, and shall be unassign-
able except as provided by a regulation of such system.
The council shall have the continuing right and power to amend
at any time any ordinance adopted pursuant to the provisions
hereof, which right and power is expressly reserved to them, but no
such amendment shall be adopted which will reduce the then accrued
benefits of such officers and employees and beneficiaries covered by
any such system or systems below the extent they may be then
covered by accumulative reserves in any such fund or funds, which
shall constitute a trust fund or funds for the payment of such
benefits.