CHAPTER 24

An Act to amend and reenact § 12 of Chapter 34 of the Acts of the
General Assembly of 1918, approved February 7, 1918, as amended,
which provided a charter and special form of government for the City
of Norfolk, which section relates to the meetings of the Council so
as to provide a date for the first meeting of the Council following the
regular municipal election when the first day of September falls on a
Saturday, Sunday or Monday.

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 12 of Chapter 84 of the Acts of the General Assembly of
1918, approved February 7, 1918, as amended, which provided a charter
and special form of government for the City of Norfolk, be and the same
is hereby amended and reenacted so as to read as follows:

§ 12. Meetings of council.

At eight o’clock P. M. on the first day of September next following the
regular municipal election, or if such day be Saturday, Sunday or Monday
then on the * following Tuesday .at 1:00 o’clock P. M., the council shall
meet at the usual place for holding meetings of the legislative body of the
city, at which time the newly elected councilmen shall assume the duties
of their office. Thereafter the council shall meet at such times as may be
prescribed by ordinance or resolution. It shall hold at least one regular
meeting each week, provided that it may, by the affirmative vote of a
majority of its members, dispense with any of such regular meetings in
the months of July and August of any year. The president of the council,
any member thereof, or the city manager, may call special meetings of the
council at any time upon at least twelve hours’ written notice to each
member, served personally or left at his usual place of business or resi-
dence; or such meeting may be held at any time without notice, provided
all members of the council attend. All meetings of the council shall be
public, and any citizen may have access to the minutes and records thereof
at all reasonable times.