CHAPTER 36

An Act to amend and reenact § 3 of Chapter 422 of the Acts of Assembly
of 1948, approved April 1, 1948, which provided a new charter for
the town of Pembroke, the section relating to the election of the
councilmen and mayor.

[H 168]

Approved February 22, 1954
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 3 of Chapter 422 of the Acts of Assembly of 1948, approved
April 1, 1948, be amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 8. The councilmen and the mayor shall be elected by the qualified
voters of the town on the second Tuesday in June, nineteen hundred *
fifty-four and the mayor shall be elected every two years thereafter. *
Members of the council shall be elected for terms of two years, but upon
the first assembling of the council elected in June, nineteen hundred fifty-
four, the members thereof shall be divided into two classes to be deter-
mined by lot with two members in one class and three members in the
other class, and the terms of the members of the class of three shall be one
year and that of the members of the class of two shall be two years. There-
after the terms of all the members of each class shall be two years.

2. An emergency exists, and this act is in force from its passage.