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1994 SESSION
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §§ 5.1 and 5.7 of Chapter 759 of the Acts of Assembly of 1972 are amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 5.1. Appointment.
The town council may appoint such officers of the town as they may deem
necessary. Such officers may include, but shall not be limited to, a town
manager, a town clerk, a town attorney, a town treasurer, a town sergeant
and justices of the peace and a chief of police. The enumeration
of officers in this section shall not be construed to require the appointment
of any such officers herein named. Officers appointed by the town council
shall perform such duties as may be specified in this Charter or by the town
council.
§ 5.7. Appointment, power and duties of chief of police.
The town council may appoint a sergeant chief of police for the
town. He shall have all powers and authority conferred by law upon the
sergeants chiefs of police of towns, and shall discharge the
same duties as sheriffs within the corporate limits of the town and for a
distance of one mile beyond the same. He shall discharge such further duties
as the town council or town manager may impose.
2. That an emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.