CHAPTER 50

dn Act to amend and reenact § 15 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 emergency measures 80 as
to provide that the emergency shall be declared in a preamble to any
emergency ordinance or resolution.

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 15 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:

§ 15. Emergency measures.

All ordinances and resolutions passed by the Council shall be in effect
from and after thirty days from the date of their passage, except that
the Council may, by the affirmative vote of five of its members, pass
emergency measures to take effect at the time indicated therein. An
emergency measure is an ordinance or resolution for the immediate pres-
ervation of the public peace, property, health or safety, or providing for
the usual daily operation of a municipal department in which the emer-
gency is set forth and * declared in a preamble thereto. Ordinances appro-
priating money for any such emergency may be passed as emergency
measures, but no measure providing for the sale or lease of city property,
or making a grant, renewal or extension of a franchise or other special
privilege, or regulating the rate to be charged for its service by any public
utility, shall be so passed.

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