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2015 SESSION
15101502DBe it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 2, as amended, of Article III of Chapter 560 of the Acts of Assembly of 1950 is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 2. On the first Tuesday in May, 1992, there shall be elected
by the qualified voters of the town seven electors, who shall be denominated
councilmen, and shall constitute the town council. The four electors receiving
the highest number of votes shall serve four-year terms and the three remaining
electors shall serve two-year terms. On the first Tuesday in May, 1994, there
shall be elected three electors to serve four-year terms.
However, beginning with the election held in 2016, there shall be elected three
electors at the time set for the November general election to take office on
January 1 following their election. The mayor and members in office on June 30,
2016, shall continue to serve until their duly elected successors have
qualified. Thereafter, there shall be an election every two
years in even-numbered years at the regular
May municipal November general
election time to fill the pending vacancies and the electors so elected shall
serve four-year terms or until their successors are duly elected and have
qualified. They shall enter upon the duties of their offices on the first day
of July
January next succeeding their election. The councilmen at
their first meeting in July January shall elect from their
number, one who shall be denominated
mayor, who shall immediately enter upon the duties of his office and whose term
of office as such shall be two years. Every person so elected shall take an
oath faithfully to execute and discharge the duties of his office to the best
of his judgment, and the mayor shall take the oath prescribed by law for State
officers. The failure of any person elected or appointed under the provisions
of this charter to qualify or to take the oath required, within the time
prescribed for entering upon the discharge of the duties of the office to which
he is elected or appointed, shall vacate the said office, and the council shall
proceed and is hereby vested with power to fill such vacancy in the manner
herein prescribed.