CHAPTER 188

An Act to amend and reenact § 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, which section relates to the meetings of the Council so as to
provide for the dispensing of any two regular meetings of the Council
during any calendar year.

(S 162]

Approved March 31, 1966

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 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, 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 * one 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 * two such regular meet-
ings in * any calendar 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 residence; or such meet-
ing 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.
2. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.