CHAPTER 86

An Act to amend and reenact § 13.06, as amended, of Chapter 9 of the
Acts of Assembly, Extraordinary Session, 1952, approved December
16, 1952, which chapter provided a new charter for the city of
Hampton; and to amend said chapter by adding sections numbered
2.05 and 3.18, the amended and new sections relating to courts not
of record; vacation of streets, alleys and easements; and appointment
of civil service employees of the federal government to boards, com-
missions and authorities by the city council; and to repeal § 13.11 of
said chapter, relating to associate civil and police justice. rH 191]

Approved February 24, 1964

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 13.06, as amended, of Chapter 9 of the Acts of Assembly,
Extraordinary Session, 1952, approved December 16, 1952, be amended
and reenacted, and that the chapter be amended by adding sections
numbered 2.05 and 3.18, the amended and new sections being as follows:

§ 2.05. Vacation of streets, alleys and easements by agreement of
abutting land owners. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to
the contrary, and in addition to any other methods provided by law, any
street, alley or easement, or part thereof, shown on a plat of subdivision
or other plat, heretofore or hereafter recorded, may be vacated by all
owners of properties abutting such street, alley, or easement, or part
thereof, to be vacated, by instrument in writing signed by all owners of
properties abutting such street, alley, or easement, or part thereof, to be
vacated, approved by the city council, acknowledged in the manner of a
deed and filed for record in the Clerk’s Office of the Circuit Court. In the
case of an alley separating lots or parcels of land within any block bounded

} one or more streets, it shall be presumed that only property owners
within such block and whose properties abut the alley have any rights or
privileges therein. In the case of a street, it shall be presumed that only
property owners within the area of land shown on such plat and reason-
ably needing to use such street as a means of ingress and egress to and
from their properties have any rights or privileges therein. As used in this
section, the word “street” shall include any road, avenue, drive or park-
way; and the word “owners” shall include lien creditors; and as used in
this section, the word “easement’ shall include drainage easements, sewer
easements and other easements of a public nature, not constituting a
street, alley or passageway.

§ 3.13. Appointment of civil service employees of the federal govern-
ment to boards, commissions and authorities. Notwithstanding any other
provision of law to the contrary, civil service employees of the federal
government, residing within the city, may be appointed to, and serve on,
all boards, commissions and authorities appointed by the city council.

§ 13.06. Sessions of courts not of record. * The criminal, and juve-
nile and domestic relations court and the traffic and civil court shall be
kept open for the transaction of business at such times as the city council
shall designate.

2. § 13.11 of Chapter 9 of the Acts of Assembly, Extraordinary Session,
1952, approved December 16, 1952, is repealed.
3. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.