CHAPTER 473

An Act to amend and reenact § 90 of Chapter 84 of the Acts of Assembly
of 1918, approved February 7, 1918, which provided a charter and
special form of government for the city of Norfolk, which section
relates to the sale of land for delinquent taxes. rH 460]

Approved April 2, 1968

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 90 of Chapter 34 of the Acts of Assembly of 1918, approved
February 7, 1918, be amended and reenacted as follows:
~ § 90. Sale for taxes.

The city treasurer shall make a report to the council at one of its
sessions in * November of each year of all real estate in the city delinquent
for city taxes assessed thereon for two years from the date when said
taxes became a lien on said real estate, and the said council shall approve,
or amend and approve, the said list and give the treasurer due credit for
the amount of delinquent taxes on the list as approved; and thereupon
the council shall direct the treasurer to sell the said several parcels of
real estate so returned and approved delinquent or so much thereof as
may be necessary for the taxes assessed thereon with interest thereon
aid such percentage as it may prescribe for charges; and unless the same
shall be previously paid, said treasurer shall make such sale to the highest
idder for cash at the front door of the court house of said city, on the
irst Tuesday in September thence next ensuing, unless otherwise speci-
ically directed by the council, after having published at least once not
less than ten days nor more than twenty days previous to such sale in
yne or more of the daily newspapers published in said city a list of the
several parcels of real estate to be sold, describing therein each parcel of
3aid real estate as it is described on the assessment rolls of the year for
which it is delinquent, together with the name of the person to whom
2ach parcel is assessed and the amount of the tax or assessment thereon,
interest and charges, to which list shall be appended a notice of the time
and place of the sale of the several parcels of real estate mentioned therein.
Provided, however, that such real estate as may already have been sold
at any delinquent tax sale theretofore made and purchased at such sale
by the city, shall not be sold at such sale. Such sale may be adjourned
from day to day until completed.