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VIRGINIA ACTS OF ASSEMBLY -- CHAPTER An Act to amend and reenact § 6 as amended of Chapter 99 of the Acts of Assembly of 1940, which provided a charter for the Town of Iron Gate in Alleghany County, relating to the town sergeant. [H 1654] Approved

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 6 as amended of Chapter 99 of the Acts of Assembly of 1940 is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 6. The office of town sergeant shall may be filled by a majority vote of the councilmen. The town council may, by a majority vote, appoint a town sergeant. The town sergeant shall qualify by taking the oath prescribed by the Code of Virginia and give bond in such amount as the council may require. He shall be vested with powers of a conservator of the peace, and shall have the same powers and discharge the same duties as a constable within the corporate limits of the town and to a distance of one mile beyond the same, and shall perform such other duties as may be from time to time prescribed by the council.