CHAPTER 74
Az Act to amend and reenact § 16 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, which relates to recordation and publication of ordt-
mances and resolutions so as to provide that certain ordinances and
resolutions be published by title after passage. HE 208]

Approved March 1, 1966

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 16 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:

§ 16. Record and publication.

Every ordinance or resolution upon its final passage shall be recorded
in a book kept for that purpose, and shall be authenticated by the signa-
tures of the presiding officer and the city clerk. Every ordinance of a
general or permanent nature shall be published * by title once within ten
days after its final passage in a newspaper or newspapers of general circu-
lation published in the municipality; and where legally permissible, such
publication shall be made but once; provided, that the foregoing require-
ments as to publication shall not apply to ordinances reordained in or by
a general compilation or codification of ordinances printed by authority of
the council.

A record or entry made by the city clerk or a copy of such record

or entry duly certified by him shall be prima facie evidence of the terms
of the ordinance and its due publication.
_ All ordinances and resolutions of the council may be read in evidence
in all courts and in all other proceedings in which it may be necessary
to refer thereto, either from a copy thereof certified by the city clerk or
from the volume of ordinances printed by authority of the council.

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