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1999 SESSION
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 5 of Chapter 163 of the Acts of Assembly of 1926 is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 5. The council shall appoint a clerk and town sergeant, and if they deem it
advisable a deputy town sergeant, and also a town treasurer and such other officers
as the council may deem necessary and proper, all of whom shall hold office at
and during the pleasure of the council, and said officers shall qualify and
execute bonds in the manner prescribed by resolution of the council, and the
council shall have power to fill the vacancy in any of these offices created by
death, resignation, removal or otherwise; but in no event shall the council
elect any officer for a term extending beyond the thirty-first day of August next
succeeding each regular quadrennial municipal election for members of the
council.