An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
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CHAPTER 541
AN ACT to amend and reenact § 3, as amended, § 18, and § 14, as
amended, of Chapter 145 of the Acts of Assembly of 1887-8,
which incorporated the town of Rocky Mount, and which sec-
tions related to administration, taxes, and powers of the
mayor; and to add to such chapter a section numbered 3-a,
providing under certain conditions for the adoption of the
town manager form of government in such town.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 3, as amended, § 13, and § 14, as amended, of Chapter
145 of the Acts of Assembly of 1887-8 be amended and reenacted,
and that such chapter be amended by adding a section numbered
3-a, as follows:
§ 3. The administration and government of said town shall be
vested in one principal officer, to be styled the mayor, who, with
six other trustees, shall constitute the council of said town, all of
whom shall be selected from among the electors of the town and
elected by the qualified voters residing within its corporate limits
on the second Tuesday in June, eighteen hundred and ninety-two,
and every two years thereafter, holding their offices for the term of
two years, commencing on the first day of September next after
their election, and afterwards until their successor shall qualify.
In the said council, so composed as aforesaid, there shall be vested
the corporate powers of said town, and it shall be known as the
council of the town of Rocky Mount. Jn the event of resignation,
removal, or disqualification of the mayor for any reason or cause,
the council shall appoint an elector to act as mayor for the re-
mainder of the term of office and until his successor shall be elected
and qualified. The mayor shall receive a salary of not more than
seventy-five dollars a month. The mayor, with any four of the other
trustees, shall constitute a quorum of the council to do business.
§ 3-a. At any time after the population of the town of Rocky
Mount shall have increased to twenty-five hundred or more inhabi-
tants, the town manager form of organization and government
provided for in Chapter 14 of Title 15 of the Code of Virginia may
be adopted for such town in accordance with the procedure pre-
scribed in Chapter 15 of Title 15 of the Code of Virginia, and
thereupon the provisions of general law relating to organization
and government of towns having the town manager form of organi-
zation and government shall apply to the town of Rocky Mount,
any provision of this charter to the contrary notwithstanding.
§ 138. The council may annually levy a tax for roads, streets,
sidewalks, and other purposes. * The poll tax shall not exceed fifty
cents on each * person in any one year.
§ 14. The * council shall have power to appoint such officers
and agents for the proper government and business of the town as
he may deem necessary, and * the council shall fix their compen-
sation. They shall have the power to appoint annually an as-
sessor, to assess the real and personal property in the said town,
and in respect to the assessment to be made by this officer, he
shall not be limited by the assessment made for the purposes
of the State, but as to any property assessed by the State he
may impose a greater or a less valuation than that made by the
State, should it seem that the State’s valuation is erroneous.
The council shall have the authority to make all proper regulations
as to giving a hearing to any taxpayer who conceives that he is
aggrieved by the assessment made by the town assessor, and to fix
the time after which no application for the reduction of assessment
will be entertained. The action of the council upon an application
for a reduction of an assessment shall be final. The mayor shall
have the power to appoint temporary policemen to assist the ser-
geant, and for enforcing the provisions of this charter, and the pro-
visions of all ordinances made in pursuance thereof, or in pursuance
of the powers enjoyed by the corporation under the general laws, the
council shall have authority to provide fines and imprisonments for
all breaches of said ordinances and to punish the parties; provided,
that in any case of conviction of a party for a breach of any of the
ordinances of the town of Rocky Mount, that the accused shall have
the right to appeal at the time the judgment is given to the * circuit
court of the county of Franklin, provided the fine imposed is over ten
dollars, and the imprisonment over one day. All acts and parts
of acts, so far as they may conflict with this, are hereby to that
extent repealed.
2. This act shall be in force on and after September one, nineteen
hundred fifty.