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SENATE BILL NO. 142 Senate Amendments in [ ] – January 20, 2012 A BILL to amend and reenact § 3 of Chapter 161 of the Acts of Assembly of 1918, which provided a charter for the Town of Pocahontas in Tazewell County, relating to elections. ---------- Patron Prior to Engrossment--Senator Puckett ---------- Referred to Committee on Local Government ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.  That § 3 of Chapter 161 of the Acts of Assembly of 1918 is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 3. Notwithstanding the provisions of § 2, beginning Beginning with the regularly scheduled municipal elections to be held in May of 2002 November of 2012, there shall be elected a council consisting of a mayor and four councilmen. The mayor and councilmen shall enter upon the duties of their offices on July January 1 next succeeding their election and shall continue in office for a term of two years and until their successors are duly elected and qualified. The term of the mayor and councilmen serving at the time of the change in the date of the municipal elections shall be extended to December 31, 2012.

[ 2.  That an emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage. ]