CHAPTER 250

An Act to amend and reenact § 8 of Chapter 186 of the Acts of Assembly
of 1988, which provided a charter for the town of Clifton, in Fairfax
County, relating to election of a mayor and councilmen for euch a9;

Approved March 31, 1964

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 3 of chapter 186 of the Acts of Assembly of 1938, which
provided a charter for the town of Clifton, in Fairfax County, be amended
and reenacted as follows:

. (a) Government of said town shall be vested in a town council,
which shall be composed of a mayor and five councilmen, who shall be
residents and qualified voters in said town and whose qualifications to hold
office, respectively, shall be the same as required of persons to vote and
hold office under the Constitution and laws of the Commonwealth of
Virginia. The mayor shall preside at all meetings of the council and in
the absence of the mayor, one of the members of the council, to be chosen
by the members present, shall act as mayor pro tempore and shall be
clothed with all the powers of the regularly chosen mayor during the
latter’s absence from the meeting.

(b) The mayor and five councilmen shall be elected on the second
Tuesday in June, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, and every two years
thereafter, and shall hold office for two years from the first day of Sep-
tember next succeeding their election. The said mayor and five council-
men shall be elected under and pursuant to the provisions of the election
laws of the State of Virginia governing town elections.

(c) The officers aforesaid shall qualify by taking the necessary oaths
of office on or before the first day of September next succeeding the elec-
tion, and shall enter upon the duties of their office on the first day of
September next succeeding their election, and shall continue in office
until their successors have qualified.
(d) The council shall appoint a clerk and a town sergeant, and if
they deem it advisable a deputy town sergeant and also a town treasurer
and such other officers as the council may deem necessary and proper,
all of whom shall hold office at and during the pleasure of the council,
and the said officers shall qualify and execute bond in the manner pre-
scribed by resolution of the council, and the council shall have power to
fill the vacancy in any of these offices, and in any other municipal office
created by death, resignation, removal or otherwise. The same person
may be appointed town clerk and town treasurer.

(e) The appointment of all election officials and the conduct of all
elections for public office shall be pursuant to and in accordance with the
provisions of general law.

(1) The town council * may fine * its members for disorderly be-
havior, and may, with the concurrence of two-thirds of all members
elected, and after due notice, expel a member.

(m) There shall be an annual meeting of the town council on the
first Tuesday of September in each year, at which time the town sergeant
and treasurer shall make their annual settlements with the council, and
at the annual meeting next succeeding a town election the new council
shall organize and elect a town clerk, a town sergeant, a deputy town
sergeant if they deem it advisable, and a town treasurer and such other
officers as the town council may deem necessary or proper.

(n) There shall be such other regular and special meetings of the
town council as the by-laws may prescribe, and at all meetings, four
members of the council, of whom the mayor may be one, shall constitute
a quorum for the transaction of all business.

(o) A vacancy in the office of mayor or councilman shall be filled
within thirty days, from the electors of the town, for the unexpired term,
by a majority vote of the remaining members of the council, provided,
however, that a vacancy in the office of mayor may be filled from their
own body by the council.

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