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2015 SESSION
15100291DBe it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 3 of Chapter 240 of the Acts of Assembly of 1908 is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 3. The government of said town shall be vested in a mayor
and six councilmen, to be elected every two years,
on the second Tuesday of June, and all November at the time of the general
election, as follows: At the 2015
election, the candidate for mayor receiving the most votes
and the candidates for council receiving the three highest vote totals
shall be elected to serve four-year
terms, and new elections for mayor and those three council seats shall be held
at the time of the November 2019 general election and every four years
thereafter. At the 2015 election, the candidates
for council receiving the next three highest vote totals shall be elected
to serve two-year terms, and new elections for those
three council seats shall be held at the time of the November 2017 general
election and every four years thereafter. The term of office for mayor
and council members shall begin on the first day of January next following the
date of their election and shall continue until their successors have
been duly elected and qualified. All elections shall conform to the general State elections
governing towns. Any person entitled to vote in the county of Southampton, and
who has been a resident of said town for thirty days, and whose name has been
properly registered on the town registration books, and who has otherwise
complied with the laws of the State in regard to capitation tax, shall be
entitled to vote at any and all elections held under this act of incorporation.
2. That an emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.