CHAPTER 195

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 2 and 17, as amended, of Chap. 217
of the Acts of Assembly of 1918, approved March 14, 1918, which
provided a charter for the city of Clifton Forge, and to amend said
chapter by adding a section numbered 28 (c), the amended and new
sections relating to the government of the town; the city council;
and permitting certain establishments to be entered by certain per-
sons under certain conditions.

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Approved March 13, 1968

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 2 and 17, as amended of Chapter 217 of the Acts of Assembly
of 1918, approved March 14, 1918, be amended and reenacted, and that said
chapter be amended by adding a section numbered 23 (c) as follows:

Government.—The government of the City of Clifton Forge
shall be vested in a council and city manager appointed by said council,
as provided by law and such boards and officers as are permitted
and required by law, and as may be constituted and appointed by said
council. The city manager shall have the authority, powers and duties as
are provided by the general laws of the State of Virginia. In the event of
the absence of the city manager, or in the event of a vacancy in the office
of the city manager, the council may designate a qualified person to act
an his place and stead.

§ 17. City Council_—There shall be elected by the qualified voters
of the city on the second Tuesday in June, nineteen hundred and
forty-two, five councilmen to be elected at large and to serve terms as now
provided by section twenty-nine hundred and thirty-two of the Code of
Virginia, except that instead of drawing lots to determine who of the
council shall serve terms of two years and four years, it shall be deter-
mined that the three councilmen receiving the highest number of votes
at the said election shall serve for a term of four years, and a council-
manic election shall be held on the second Tuesday in June of each second
year thereafter as provided in said section. All councilmen elected at the
regular June election shall take office on the first day of September follow-
ing such election. Members of the council taking office after their election
in June, 1968, may receive a salary for each member not to exceed three
hundred dollars per annum, and the mayor may receive a salary not to
exceed siz hundred dollars per annum.

§ 23 (c). Council may by ordinance, permit persons sixteen years
of age or older to enter into any poolroom and billiard room.

2. If any part of this act shall, for any reason, be adjudged by any court
of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment, order or decree
shall not affect or invalidate the remainder of this act, but shall be confined
in its operation to the part thereof directly involved in the matter in which
such judgment, order or decree shall have been rendered.

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