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2021 SESSION

21100744D
HOUSE BILL NO. 2180
Offered January 13, 2021
Prefiled January 12, 2021
A BILL to amend and reenact § 7, as amended, of Chapter 343 of the Acts of Assembly of 1928, which provided a charter for the City of Lynchburg, relating to salaries.
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Patrons-- Walker and Wiley; Senator: Peake
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Referred to Committee on Communications, Technology and Innovation
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 7, as amended, of Chapter 343 of the Acts of Assembly of 1928 is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 7. Present members of council shall be paid their current salary until July 1, 1976, thereafter the salary of each member of council shall be $2,400 per annum, except that member who shall be elected mayor, whose salary shall be $3,600 per annum, and except that member who shall be elected vice-mayor, whose salary shall be $3,000 per annum, payable out of the treasury of the city of Lynchburg in monthly installments; provided, however, that the council may, from time to time, by five-sevenths vote of all members elected to council, change the salaries of each member of the council, and the members who shall be elected mayor and vice-mayor respectively, to such sums per annum as it may see fit, but not to exceed the sum of $2,400 per annum for each member of the council and $3,600 per annum for the mayor and $3,000 per annum for the vice-mayor. The salary of members of council shall be determined in accordance with general law.