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CHAPTER 564 An Act to amend and reenact § 2 of Chapter 486 of the Acts of Assembly of 1892, which provided a charter for the Town of Glasgow, in Rockbridge County, relating to council elections. [H 1206] Approved April 12, 2004

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 2 of Chapter 486 of the Acts of Assembly of 1892 is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 2. The government of the said town shall be vested in a mayor and a council of six members besides the mayor (who shall be ex officio a member of the council and preside at all meetings thereof), who shall be residents of said town, and shall be elected on the fourth Thursday of May, 1893, and on the fourth Thursday of May in every second year thereafter in accordance with the provisions of general law for terms of two years, by those qualified to vote for members of the general assembly and who shall have been residents within the boundaries of the corporation for three months next preceding the election, and by no other person. There shall be five days' notice of all elections by posting notices at three or more public places within the corporation. The council may by ordinance establish a system of staggered terms for election of council members. The mayor and council shall remain in office until their successors are elected and qualified in their stead, but no longer.