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2015 SESSION
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 2, as amended, of Article III of Chapter 560 of the Acts of Assembly of 1950 is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 2. On the first Tuesday in May, 1992, there shall be elected
by the qualified voters of the town seven electors, who shall be denominated
councilmen, and shall constitute the town council. The four electors receiving
the highest number of votes shall serve four-year terms and the three remaining
electors shall serve two-year terms. On the first Tuesday in May, 1994, there
shall be elected three electors to serve four-year terms. However, beginning
with the election held in 2016, there shall be elected four electors at
the time set for the November general election to take office on January 1
following their election. The mayor and members in office on June 30, 2016,
shall continue to serve until their duly elected successors have qualified.
Thereafter, there shall be an election every two years in even-numbered years
at the regular May municipal November general election time to
fill the pending vacancies and the electors so elected shall serve four-year
terms or until their successors are duly elected and have qualified. They shall
enter upon the duties of their offices on the first day of July
January next succeeding their election. The councilmen at their first
meeting in July January shall elect from their number, one
who shall be denominated mayor, who shall immediately enter upon the duties of
his office and whose term of office as such shall be two years. Every person so
elected shall take an oath faithfully to execute and discharge the duties of
his office to the best of his judgment, and the mayor shall take the oath
prescribed by law for State officers. The failure of any person elected or
appointed under the provisions of this charter to qualify or to take the oath
required, within the time prescribed for entering upon the discharge of the
duties of the office to which he is elected or appointed, shall vacate the said
office, and the council shall proceed and is hereby vested with power to fill
such vacancy in the manner herein prescribed.