CHAPTER 561

An Act to amend and reenact § 3.05, as amended, of Chapter 828 of the
Acts of Assembly of 1950, approved April 4, 1950 which provided a
charter for the city of Falls Church, the section relating to election of
certain city officers.
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Approved April 6, 1954
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 3.05, as amended, of Chapter 323 of the Acts of Assembly of
1950, approved April 4, 1950 be amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 8.05. All other city officers required by the laws of the Common-
wealth to be elected by the qualified voters of the city shall be elected on
the first Tuesday following the first Monday in November preceding the
expiration of the terms of office of their respective predecessors, for such
terms as are prescribed by law. All such elective officers shall be nomi-
nated and elected as provided in the general laws of the Commonwealth.
A vacancy in the office of commissioner of revenue, city treasurer, city
attorney, justice of the peace, bailing justice or city sergeant shall be filled
by the council by majority vote of all its members for the interim period
until a successor is elected at the next general] election and takes office, as
is provided in the Code of Virginia. The officers so elected or appointed
shall qualify in the mode prescribed by law and shall continue in office
until their successors are elected and qualified.