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CHAPTER 675 An Act to amend and reenact § 3.1, as amended, of Chapter 30 of the Acts of Assembly of 1978, which provided a charter for the Town of New Castle, relating to council term of office. [S 1068] Approved March 23, 2005  

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.  That § 3.1, as amended, of Chapter 30 of the Acts of Assembly of 1978 is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 3.1.  ELECTION, QUALIFICATION AND TERM OF OFFICE OF COUNCIL PERSON AND MAYOR.

The town of New Castle shall be governed by a town council composed of four council persons and a mayor, all of whom shall be qualified voters of the town, to be elected from the town at large. Any person qualified to vote in the town shall be eligible for the office of council person or mayor. The mayor and council person in office at the time of the passage of this act shall continue in office until the expiration of the terms for which they were elected or until their successors are duly elected and qualified. An election for mayor and council persons shall be held on the first Tuesday in May, nineteen hundred seventy-eight, and on the first Tuesday in May of every second year thereafter and take office on the first day of July succeeding their election to serve for terms of two years or until their successors have qualified. However, beginning with the election to be held in May 2006, the mayor and council persons shall be elected to terms of four years or until their successors have qualified. No person may be a candidate for the office of mayor and for the office of councilman in the same election.