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2016 SESSION
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 2, §§ 4, 8, and 12, as amended, and § 13 of Chapter 39 of the Acts of Assembly of 1936 are amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 2. The corporate limits of the Town of South Hill, Virginia, as heretofore established, are hereby re-established, to include an area of approximately nine and three-tenths (9.3) square miles, as follows:
Beginning at a point in the center of Mecklenburg avenue,
where it is crossed by the center of Main street, and extending in every
direction five-eights of a mile, with such additional land as will make a
circle one and a quarter miles in diameter, taking the intersection of the
above named streets as a central point.
Beginning at a point in the center of the intersection of North Mecklenburg Avenue and Atlantic Street and extending north on North Mecklenburg Avenue for three and two-tenths (3.2) miles, west on West Atlantic Street for one and two-tenths (1.2) miles, east on East Atlantic Street for two and two-tenths (2.2) miles, southwesterly on West Danville Street for two and six-tenths (2.6) miles, and south on South Hill Avenue/Goodes Ferry Road for one and eight-tenths (1.8) miles. Additional boundary information is included in records on file in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Mecklenburg County.
§ 4. The government of the Town of South Hill shall be vested in a council composed of eight members of council elected from multi-member districts and a mayor elected at large. There are three districts: Election District I shall have two members, Election District II shall have three members, and Election District III shall have three members.
The method of election shall be by plurality vote and not by majority
vote. Vacancies of members of council or mayor shall be filled in accordance
with §§ 24.2-226 and 24.2-228 of the Code of Virginia for the unexpired term.
Additional officers of the town shall be a town manager, clerk,
treasurer, finance director, chief of police, and such other
agent, attorney, police, and clerical assistance as may be required.
§ 8. The mayor shall be the chief executive of the town and
as such shall have full power over the police forces. He shall preside at
all council meetings; he may discuss questions, present issues, and recommend
measures, but shall vote only to break a tie. As the official head of the town
the mayor shall exercise all the powers conferred by general laws upon mayors
of towns, and not inconsistent with this charter. In times of emergency he may
take personal charge of the police forces of the town and may deputize any of
the citizens of the town to do police duty. He shall affix his name to papers
and documents requiring the same, and perform such other duties not
inconsistent with his office, as the council may direct, under the charter and
the laws of Virginia. The council by majority vote shall elect a member of the
council mayor pro tem, who shall act in the absence or inability of the mayor.
§ 12. The chief of police shall have control of the police
force of the town under the jurisdiction of the mayor and shall be hired and
may be fired by the mayor; he town manager. The chief of police and
the police officers of the town shall have the same powers and discharge the
same duties as a constable of Mecklenburg county County, except
he they shall serve civil process only on behalf of the town, and
shall have like powers in a radius of two miles beyond the town, not in
conflict with other authority. He shall perform all duties required of a chief
of police and others not inconsistent with his office, or as directed by the
council or mayor town manager.
§ 13. A lien shall exist upon all real estate within the
corporate limits of the town, for taxes, levies and assessments, in favor of
the town, holding thereon from the beginning of the year in which levied or
assessed, and the procedure for the collection legally of such assessment and
levies, and for selling or disposing of property to satisfy such liens for taxes
and assessments, and for the redemption of the same, shall be in conformity
with the State laws of Virginia, to the same extent and in the same effect as
if the same were herein set out at length and completely and reference to the
said laws of the State is hereby directed. And the said town shall have the
benefit of all other and additional laws and remedies for collection of town
taxes, levies and assessments, which now are or may hereafter be enacted or
inaugurated for the collection of town assessments and levies, by the State of
Virginia, including the right to institute and conduct chancery suits in the
circuit court Circuit Court of Mecklenburg County, to enforce
payment thereof.