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2011 SESSION
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 3.1, as amended, of Chapter 472 of the Acts of Assembly of 1970 is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 3.1. Election, Qualification and Term of Office of Councilmen and Mayor.
(a) The Town of Narrows shall be governed by a town council composed of five councilmen and a mayor, all of whom shall be qualified voters of the town.
(b) The mayor and councilmen 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. An election for mayor and councilmen to fill the
vacancies caused by the expiration of the terms of the mayor and councilmen
shall be held on the first Tuesday in May, 1976, and every two years
thereafter, the mayor to be elected for a term of two years and councilmen for
a term of four years. The mayor and councilmen elected under this act shall
enter upon the duties of their offices on the first day of July next succeeding
his or their election. The mayor and members of the town council shall
hereafter be elected at the November general election date, beginning with the
general election to be held in November 2012, and every two years thereafter.
The mayor shall be elected to a term of two years and town council members
shall be elected for a term of four years. The mayor and council members in
office at the time of the passage of the appropriate ordinance shall, unless
otherwise vacated prior thereto, continue in office until the expiration of the
terms for which they were elected; however, the term of the mayor and any
member of council elected at a May election whose term shall expire as of June
30 of any year shall continue in office until their successors have been
elected at the November general election and have been qualified to serve. The
mayor and council members elected at the November 2012 general election, and
all subsequent November general elections, shall enter upon the duties of their
offices on the first day of January next succeeding their election.