CHAPTER 420

An Act to amend and reenact § 22 of Chapter 150 of the Acts of Assem-
‘bly of 1980, approved March 20, 1980, which act provided a new
charter for the town of Bluefield, the section relating to the town

treasurer.
{H 652]
Approved March 15, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 22 of Chapter 150 of the Acts of Assembly of 1930, approved
March 20, 1930, be amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 22. ‘(a) A town treasurer shall be elected from and by the qualified
voters of the town at the June election, nineteen hundred and * fifty-six,
and each * four years thereafter, and shall qualify and assume the duties
of his office September first, nineteen hundred and * fifty-siz, and serve
for * four years, and thereafter until his successor has been elected and
qualified, and shall be bonded, by corporate bond, as the council may deem
necessary.

(b) The town treasurer shall be the disbursing agent of the town
and have the custody of all moneys, the town clerk’s bond and all evidences
of value belonging to the town or held in trust by the town.

(c) He shall receive all moneys belonging to and received by the
town and keep a correct account of all receipts from all sources and ex-
penditures of all departments. He shall collect all taxes and assessments,
water rents, and other charges belonging to and payable to the town, and
for that purpose he is hereby vested with any and all powers which are
now or may hereafter be vested in county and city treasurers for the
collection of county, city and State taxes under the general law.

(d) He shall pay no money out of the treasury except in the manner
prescribed in this charter.

(e) He shall make all such reports and perform such other duties
as may be required by the council.

(f) The said treasurer shall not be entitled to any commission what-
soever for handling the funds of the town, but he shall be paid for his
services as such treasurer such salary as may be provided by the said
council.

(g) He shall as soon as the commissioner of the revenue completes
the land and personal property books take the said books and carefully
audit the same, and compare them with the books of the previous year.
The land book shall be compared with the assessor’s book lodged in the
clerk’s office of Tazewell County, and the personal property book shall be
compared with the books of the previous year, and the said treasurer shall
procure a copy of the poll books used in the election next preceding the
assessment from which said books were made, and he shall ascertain
which of the citizens and voters, if any, have not been assessed by the
commissioner of the revenue, and the list of those not assessed shall be
laid before the town council at its next meeting. The said treasurer shall
examine said books and see that the amount of tax is correctly extended
in accordance with the rate of taxation at that time in force, and the
columns of said book shall be carefully audited and the errors therein,
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if any, shall be corrected. The commissioner of the revenue is required
to be present and render the treasurer such assistance as he may desire;
when said books are corrected and audited the total thereof shall be
charged to the town treasurer on his account. The treasurer shall take
the delinquent lists and lay the same before the town council, and it
shall be the duty of said council to carefully examine said delinquent re-
port of both real and personal tax. If said treasurer has returned any
tax, either real or personal, delinquent that should not under the pro-
visions of the ordinances of the town have been returned delinquent, the
said council shall refuse to allow him credit therefor and shall strike
from the delinquent report any and all such taxes; after said report has
been corrected as herein provided, the treasurer will be credited with
the amount of the same. :

‘((h) He shall perform such other duties as may be required of him
by this charter or by the council. ,
2. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.