CHAPTER 509

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 5, 88, 42 and 48 of Chapter 73 of the
Acts of Assembly of 1912, approved March 4, 1912, which rewrote
Chapter 302 of the Acts of Assembly of 1880, which provided a
charter for the town of Dayton, in Rockingham County, the amended
sections relating respectively to terms of members of the council;
the election of the treasurer; appointment of the treasurer; his pow-
ers and duties; town assessor.
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Approved April 4, 1968

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 5, 33, 42 and 43 of Chapter 73 of the Acts of Assembly of
1912, approved March 4, 1912, be amended and reenacted, as follows:

§ 5. Their term of office shall be for * four years, (except when
filling vacancies), and they shall enter upon the duties of the office on
the first day of September next succeeding their election, and shall con-
tinue in office until their successors are qualified, provided, however, that
at the election which shall be held on the second Tuesday in June, nine-
teen hundred sixty-eight, the members of council shall hold office as
follows: the four candidates receiving the highest number of votes shall
hold office for a term of four years each and the three candidates receiving
the next highest number of votes then shall hold office for a term of two
years. Thereafter, members of council shall hold office for a term of four
years.

§ 33. There shall be *appointed by the council one treasurer. Such
treasurer shall be appointed at the first regular meeting of the council
after the election in June, nineteen hundred sixty-eight. Such treasurer
may hold office for a term of two years, when he shall be reappointed
or his successor elected, however, he shall perform his duties at the pleasure
of the council. His compensation shall be fixed by the council. The treas-
urer holding office after the effective date of this Act shall continue to
hold office until his successor is appointed, unless his office be vacated,
or unless sooner removed from office. He shall qualify before the council
and give bond, with surety approved by it in a penalty to be determined
by the council, but not less in any case than double the amount that will
probably be in the hands of said treasurer as treasurer of the town at
any one time.

§ 42. There shall be elected by the qualified voters of the town at
each biennial election one assessor, who shall hold office for the period
of two years, and until his successor shall be elected and qualified, un-
less sooner removed from office. He shall give bond, with surety, in such
amount as the council may determine, said bond to be appointed by the
town council, entered on their record and filed in the office of the town
recorder.

In case a vacancy shall occur in the office of assessor, the town
council shall elect a qualified person to fill said office until the next general
election which may be held for the town; provided, however, that upon
the first regular meeting of the council after the election of members of
council in June, nineteen hundred sixty-eight, the office of assessor shall
be abolished.

§ 43. After the first meeting of council after the election of members
of council in June, nineteen hundred sixty-eight, the * treasurer shall per-
form all the duties formerly performed by the assessor in relation to the
assessinent of property for the purpose of levying the town taxes that
may be ordered by the town council. He shall keep in his office * such
books, schedules, records and other papers, and in such manner as the
council may direct and prescribe, which books, schedules, records and
other papers shall be subject to the inspection and examination of the
mayor, the members of the town council, and any committee or com-
mittees thereof, and of the collector of the town taxes. *

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