CHAPTER 51

An Act to amend and reenact § 14 of Chapter $4 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 legislative procedure so as to provide
that before an ordinance shall be passed it shall be read by its tttle.

[H 218]
Approved February 26, 1966

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 14 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:

§ 14. Legislative procedure.

Except in dealing with questions of parliamentary procedure the
Council shall act only by ordinance or resolution which shall be introduced
In writing and all ordinances except ordinances making appropriations, or
authorizing the contracting of indebtedness or issuance of bonds or other
evidences of debt, shall be confined to one subject, which shall be clearly
expressed in the title. Ordinances making appropriations or authorizing the
contracting of indebtedness or the issuance of bonds or other obligations
and appropriating the money to be raised thereby shall be confined to those
subjects respectively. Nothing herein shall be construed to prevent the
Council from authorizing in and by the same ordinance the making of any
one public improvement and the issue of bonds therefor.

The enacting clause of all ordinances passed by the Council shall be,
“Be it ordained by the Council of the city of Norfolk’’; the enacting clause
of all ordinances submitted to popular election by the initiative shall be,
“Be it ordained by the people of the city of Norfolk’. No ordinance, unless
it be an emergency measure, shall be passed until it has been read by its
title at two regular meetings not less than one week apart, or the require-
ment of such reading has been dispensed with by the affirmative vote of
five of the members of the Council. No ordinance, section or subsection
thereof, shall be revised or amended by its title, section number or sub-
section number only, but the new ordinance shall contain the entire
ordinance, section or subsection, as revised or amended. The ayes and noes
shall be taken upon the passage of all ordinances or resolutions and entered
upon the journal of the proceedings of the Council, and every ordinance or
resolution shall require, on final passage, the affirmative vote of at least
four of the members. No member shall be excused from voting except on
matters involving the consideration of his own official conduct, or where
his financial interests are involved.

_ In authorizing the making of any public improvement, or the acquisi-
tion of real estate or any interest therein; or authorizing the contracting
of indebtedness or the issuance of bonds or other evidences of indebtedness,
(except temporary loans in anticipation of taxes or revenues or of the sale
of bonds lawfully authorized); or authorizing the sale of any property
or rights in property of the city of Norfolk, or granting any public utility
franchise, privilege, lease or right of any kind to use any public property
or casement of any description or any renewal, amendment or extension
thereof, the Council shall act only by ordinance; provided, however, that.
after any such ordinance shall have taken effect, all subsequent proceedings.
incidental thereto and providing for the carrying out of the purposes of
such ordinance may, except as otherwise provided in this charter, be taken
by resolution of the Council. ,

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