CHAPTER 426

An Act to amend and reenact Section 2 of Chapter I; Section 4 of Chapter
IV; Section 2 of Chapter VIII; and Section 2 of Chapter IX all of
Chapter 481 of the Acts of Assembly of 1950, approved April 6, 1950,
which provided a new charter for the city of Hopewell, relating to
boundaries of the city, organization and duties of the council, con-
tributions toward salary of judge of Circuit Court, and appointment
of substitute civil and police justice. S 339

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Approved April 1, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That Section 2 of Chapter I; Section 4 of Chapter IV; Section 2 of
Chapter VIII; and Section 2 of Chapter IX all of Chapter 431 of the Acts
of Assembly of 1950, approved April 6, 1950, which provided a new charter
for the city of Hopewell, be amended and reenacted as follows:

hapter I — Section 2: The boundaries of the said City are and shall
be, unless and until changed by amendment, annexation, or otherwise, as
follows:

Beginning at the mouth of Bailey’s Creek at a point determined as
that point where the mean low water line on the north side of said Bailey’s
Creek joins the mean low water line on the west side of the James River;
thence in a westerly direction upstream along the mean low water line
of Bailey’s Creek as it meanders to a point near the lower fork of Cattail
Creek where said low water line is intersected by a line projected due true
south from a point on an iron pipe, the coordinates of which are 2500 N.
and 7072.41 E.; said coordinates being given with reference to a certain
plat recorded in the Clerk’s Office of the Circuit Court of Prince George
County in Plat Book 3 at page 135*; thence running in a westerly direc-
tion up Bailey’s Creek, as it meanders, 6770 feet more or less, to a point at
the south western corner of the subdivision of Dupont Gardens, thence
along the property lines of said Dupont Gardens Subdivision N 21° 585’
W 1118 feet, more or less; thence N 83° 41’ E 245.6 feet, more or less;
thence N 6° 19’ W 1,027.6 feet, more or less, to a point in the northern
right of way line of State Route 1324 (City Point Road); thence along the
said northern right of way line of said State Route 13824 the following
courses and distances: S 84° 40° W 97.7 feet; S 80° 04’ W 54.88 feet; S 88°
46’ W 189.94 feet; S 70° 26’ W 204.83 feet; S 70° 58’ W 243.86 feet; thence
S 68° 46’ W 243.20 feet; S 70° 81’ W 139.87 feet; S 46° 29° W 50.8 feet;
S 45° 22° W 369.7 feet; S 41° 42’ W 51.7 feet; S 43° 30’ W 128.4 feet;
S 52° 43’ W 827.6 feet; S 69° 32’ W 54.9 feet; S 67° 27’ W 453.5 feet;
S 69° 58’ W 119.0 feet; S 78° 09° W 148.1 feet; S 77° 50° W 59.8 feet;
S 74° 02° W 402 feet; S 82° 19° W 88.04 feet; S 77° 23’ W 212.2 feet;
S 73° 26’ W $98.2 feet; S 75° 52’ W 97.75 feet; S 61° 20° 80” W 275.98
feet; S 78° 08 W 484.87 feet; S 77° 26’ W 93.50 feet; S 79° 33’ W 442.06
feet; N 64° 13’ W 16.56 feet; S 74° 24’ W 161.44 feet; S 62° 48’ W 42.0
feet; S 61° 45’ 80” W 417.56 feet; S 63° 45’ W 52.78 feet; S 61° 20’ 30”
W 477.4 feet; to a point in the intersection of the said northern right of
way line with the eastern right of way line of State Route $648, near tts
intersection with State Route #36; thence N 10° 55’ W; along eastern line
of State Route #648, crossing State Route $36, 1154.1 feet, to the south-
eastern line of the right of way of the Norfolk and Western Railway;
thence N 45° 07’ E along said southeastern right of way of said railway
1780.85 feet; thence N 0° 59’ E crossing the said railway and along prop-
erty line with Stephen Heretick, 1981.5 feet; thence S 82° 47’ W along
property line with said Heretick 100 feet; thence S 68° 11’ W 101.0 feet;
thence N 87° 54’ W 256.1 feet; thence N 74° 14’ W 992.4 feet to a point in
the eastern right of way line of State Route #648; thence along the eastern
and southern lines of State Route #648, the following courses and dts-
tances: N 28° 12’ E 156.12 feet; N 84° 86’ E 398.6 feet; N 34° 09’ E 351.24
feet; N 26° 04’ E 435.44 feet; N 25° 48’ 80” E 895.8 feet; N 68° 18’ E 58.32
feet; S 84° 51’ E 350.8 feet; S 84° 02’ E 515.50 feet; N 15° 32’ EF 1484.1
feet; N 6° 18’ E 89.7 feet; to a point in the eastern line of said State Route

648 at the intersection of the southern boundary line of Buren Gardens

ubdivision, Section B.prolonged eastwardly; thence N 89° 40’ W crossing
State Route +648 and along southern boundary line of said Buren Gardens
Subdivision Section B, 526.70 feet; thence along lines of said Buren Gar-
dens, Subdivision Section B, the following courses and distances: N 0° 30’
E 150.0 feet; N 89° 80’ W 26.84 feet; N 0° 80 E 571.80 feet to a point in
the southern line of Sunset Drive; S 69° 34’ E along the said southern line
of Sunset Drive 45.18 feet; thence N 20° 26’ E, crossing said drive and
the right of way of Seaboard Air Line Ratlroad-Hopewell Branch, 300.0
feet to a point in the northern right of way line of the said railroad; thence
along the northern and eastern right of way lines of the said railroad the
following courses and distances: N 69° 34’ W 1086.1 feet; thence along
the arc of a curve to the right, the radius of which is 904.98 feet, a distance
of 774.39 feet; N 20° 32’ 10” W 1754.2 feet; thence along the arc of a
curve to the right; the radius of which 1s 904.98 feet for a distance of
789.70 feet; N 29° 27’ 50” E 418.85 feet; thence along the arc of a curve
to the left, the radius of which is 1482.40 feet for a distance of 782.22
feet; N 0° 46’ 10” W 875 feet, more or less, to a point in the center line
of the Appomattox River; thence in an easterly direction along the center
line of the said Appomattox River, as it meanders, 6250 feet more or less
to a point in the western corporate line of the city of Hopewell, prior to
January 1, 1952; thence in a line N 16° 80° 46” E to its intersection
with the southern boundary of Chesterfield County, said boundary being
the mean low water line on the north side of the Appomattox River; thence
in an easterly direction along said mean low water line of the Appomattox
River, the boundary of Chesterfield County to a point 150 feet distant from
and at right angles to the center line of the Appomattox River bridge on
the Richmond-Hopewell highway; thence due true S 11° 32’ E, a distance
of 435 feet more or less to a point; thence due true N 78° 28’ E 117 feet
to a point; thence due true S 11° 32’ E, a distance of 70 feet to a point
in the mean low water line of the south side of the Appomattox River;
thence eastwardly along the said mean low water line of the Appomattox
River a distance of 66 feet more or less to a point; thence due true N 11°
32’ W a distance of 70 feet to a point; thence due true N 78° 28% E, a
distance of 117 feet to a point; thence due true N 11° 32’ W, a distance of
435 feet more or less to a point in the mean low water line on the north
side of the Appomattox River, said point being in the southern boundary
of Chesterfield County, and said point being further described as being
150 feet distant and at right angles to the center line of above-mentioned
Appomattox River bridge and being in an easterly direction therefrom;
thence in an easterly direction along the said low water line of the Ap-
pomattox River, following the line of Chesterfield County to a point in
the Appomattox River in the said boundary line of Chesterfield County
where the said boundary line is intersected by a projection northwardly
of the line of the east side of Bermuda Street; thence southerly along said
projection of the line of the eastern side of Bermuda Street to a point in
the mean low water line on the southern shore of the Appomattox River;
thence down the said -mean low water line of the Appomattox River to its
intersection with the westerly mean low water line of the James River;
thence down said mean low water line of the James River to its intersec-
tion with the mean low water line on the northerly side of Bailey’s Creek,
said point being the point of beginning.

Chapter IV — Section 4. On the first Tuesday in September next
following the regular municipal election, or as soon thereafter as may be
practicable, the newly elected council shall:

(a) Proceed to choose by majority vote of all the members thereof
one of their number to be president, who shall be ex-officio mayor, and
another as vice-president, of the council, who shall be ex-officio vice-mayor,
each of whom shall serve for a period of two years from the first day of
the September in which such election is held and until their successor or
successors have been elected and qualified.

(b) Appoint a city manager, a city clerk, a city auditor (whose duties
may be combined with that of the city clerk), a civil and police justice,
a substitute civil and police justice and a judge of the juvenile and do-
mestic relations court, the last of whom may also be civil and police justice.

(c) Appoint the members of such boards and commissions as are
provided for in this charter, or as may be established by the council or
by general laws. The school board, library board, City Planning and
Zoning Commission, Public Recreation and Parks Commission and Dock
<a shall each consist of five members who shall be appointed as

ollows:

On the first Tuesday in September, nineteen hundred fifty,. there
shall be appointed two members of each board or commission for a term
of four years each and three members for terms of two years each, and
thereafter, upon the expiration of the terms of the said members, their
successors shall be appointed for terms of four years each.

The members of said boards and commissions shall serve until their
successors have been appointed and qualified.

(d) If it deems necessary, appoint a city attorney and bailing
justices.

All elections by the council shall be viva voce and the vote recorded
in the journal of the council.

The council may determine its own rules of procedure, may punish
its members for misconduct and may compel the attendance of members
in such manner and under such penalties as may be prescribed by ordinance.
It shall keep a journal of its proceedings. A majority of all the members
of the council shall constitute a quorum to do business, but a smaller
number may adjourn from time to time.

No person, now a member or who may hereafter be elected to the
Council shall, during his tenure of office, * or during the term for which
he was elected as such member, be eligible to any office to be filled by the
Council by election or appointment.

Chapter VIII — Section 2: The city of Hopewell shall pay to the
judge of the Circuit Court of the city of Hopewell a salary of not less than
five hundred dollars nor more than * two thousand dollars per year, to be
fixed by the city council, in addition to its pro rata part of the regular
salary of the said judge as fixed by general law.

Chapter LX — Section 2: There shall be appointed for a term of two
years a substitute civil and police justice appointed as hereinbefore pro-
vided, who shall act for said civil and police justice when he is unable
to perform the duties of his office, who shall have such qualifications as
the council may by ordinance or resolution provide. When acting for the
Civil and Police Justice, he shall receive such salary as is provided for
the Civil and Police Justice, and such compensation, in excess of sixty
days, shall be deducted from the compensation of thé Civil and Police
Justice, and shall have such jurisdiction and authority as is provided for
civil and police justices by the general laws of the State of Virginia, with
a minimum of one month’s salary. He shall have authority to issue war-
rants and summonses in criminal and civil cases whether acting as sub-
stitute civil and police justice at the time or not.