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1995 SESSION
LD8419260Patrons--Hall, Ball, Cantor, Cunningham, Jones, D.C. and Rhodes; Senators: Benedetti, Lambert and Marsh
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §§ 4.12, 6.17, 20.01 and 20.02, as severally amended, of Chapter 116 of the Acts of Assembly of 1948 are amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 4.12. Same; submission of proposition to the qualified voters of the
city.--The council shall have authority to order, by resolution directed to
the circuit court of the City of Richmond, Division I, or the chief
judge thereof in vacation, the submission to the qualified voters of
the city for an advisory referendum thereon any proposed ordinance or
amendment to the City Charter. Upon the receipt of such resolution the
circuit court of the City of Richmond, Division I, or the chief judge
thereof in vacation shall order an election to be held thereon not less
than thirty nor more than sixty days after the receipt of
such resolution from the date of the court’s order. The
election shall be conducted and the result thereof ascertained and determined
in the manner provided by law for the conduct of general elections and by the
regular election officials of the city. If a petition requesting the
submission of an amendment to this Charter, set forth in such petition,
signed by qualified voters equal in number to ten percent of the largest
number of votes cast in any general or primary election held in the city
during the five years immediately preceding and verified as hereinafter
provided, is filed with the clerk of the circuit court of the City of
Richmond, Division I, he shall forthwith certify that fact to the
court or the judge thereof in vacation. The signatures to such
petition shall be verified by attaching thereto a certificate of an officer
or officers authorized to administer oaths, that the persons whose names are
signed thereto made oath before such officer or officers that they are
qualified voters of the city. Upon the certification of such
petition, the circuit court, Division I, of
the City of Richmond or the chief judge thereof in vacation shall
order an election to be held not less than thirty nor more than sixty days
after such certification, in which such proposed amendment shall be submitted
to the qualified voters of the city for their approval or disapproval. Such
election shall be conducted and the results thereof ascertained and
determined in the manner provided by law for the conduct of general elections
and by the regular election officials of the city. If a majority of those
voting thereon at such election approved the proposed amendment such result
shall be communicated by the clerk of the circuit court,
Division I, of the City of Richmond to the two houses of the
General Assembly and to the representatives of the city therein with the same
effect as if the council had adopted a resolution requesting the General
Assembly to adopt the amendment.
§ 6.17. Additional appropriations.--An appropriation in addition to those
contained in the general fund appropriation ordinance, except for the purpose
of meeting a public emergency as provided in subsection (d) of section 2.02
of this charter, may be made by the council, by not less than six affirmative
votes, only on the recommendation of the city manager and only if the
director of finance certifies in writing that there is available in the
general fund a sum unencumbered and unappropriated sufficient to meet such
appropriation. An appropriation made to "Reserve for Contingencies," or such
sum as shall remain in said appropriation, until allocated for a definite and
specific purpose, shall be unencumbered and available for allocation at any
time during the fiscal year and the director of finance may certify all or
part of said appropriation as unencumbered and available to meet such
allocation. No additional appropriations may be made by council in any
current fiscal year from any general fund balance of a previous year which is
not contained in the estimate of revenue for the general fund budget for such
current fiscal year. At any time during the fiscal year when reimbursements
or payments from the Commonwealth of Virginia or the United States of America
for specified purposes exceed budget estimates of anticipated revenue for
such purposes, such excess reimbursements or payments may be included in the
general fund unencumbered and unappropriated balances and may be appropriated
for such specified purpose, whether such grants be termed categorical or for
general purposes. Additional appropriations may be made by the council, by
not less than six affirmative votes, from the funds of any utility for the
operation of that utility, and by the school board, by not less than
four six affirmative votes, from school funds for
school purposes, but only if the director of finance certifies in writing
that there is available in the funds of the utility or school board, as the
case may be, a sum unencumbered and unappropriated sufficient to meet such
appropriation.
§ 20.01. School board.
The school board shall consist of nine trustees. One trustee shall be
elected from each of the nine council districts and shall be a qualified
voter of that district. Elections of school board trustees shall be
held as follows:
(1) at the May 1994 municipal elections, nine trustees shall be elected
to serve two-year terms;
(2) at the May 1996 municipal elections, nine trustees shall be elected
to serve four-year terms;
(3) at the May municipal elections every four years thereafter, there
shall be elected trustees equal in number to the trustees whose terms expire
in that year.
The terms of members of the school board shall be the same as the terms of the members of the council.
Trustees shall take office July 1 following their election.
Except as provided in this Charter the school board shall have all the powers and duties relating to the management and control of the public schools of the city provided by the general laws of the Commonwealth. None of the provisions of this Charter shall be interpreted to refer to or include the school board unless the intention so to do is expressly stated or is clearly apparent from the context.
§ 20.02. Richmond Public Library Board.--There shall continue to
be a Richmond public library board which shall consist of seven
nine members. Of these members one shall be a member of the
council appointed by the council for a term coincident with his term in the
council; one shall be the superintendent of the Richmond public schools,
or a designee; and five seven shall be qualified
voters of the city appointed by the council for terms of three years.
The members of the Richmond public library board in office on January one,
nineteen hundred seventy-eight, shall each continue to serve as members of
the board until the expiration of the term for which he was appointed. Upon
the expiration of such term his successor shall be appointed by the council
for a term of three years. Vacancies shall be filled by the council
for the unexpired portion of the term. The Richmond public library board
shall have the management and control of the public libraries of the city and
shall have such powers and duties with respect thereto as are conferred or
imposed on it by this charter and by ordinance.
2. That an emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.