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1995 SESSION
LD6205442Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §§ 4, 7 as amended and 9 of Chapter 364 of the Acts of Assembly of 1942 are amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 4. Composition of council and vacancies.
The council shall consist of a mayor and six other electors of the town, who
shall be denominated the council of said the town. The
mayor and councilmen shall be elected for a term of two years at a general
election held for that purpose on the second first
Tuesday of June, nineteen hundred and forty-two, and the second
Tuesday in June every two years thereafter May of every
even-numbered year as provided by law, and the persons so elected shall
enter upon the duties of their office on the first day of September
July next succeeding their election, and shall continue in
office until their successors are qualified.
Every person elected a councilman of the town, shall, on or before the day on which he enters upon the performance of his duties, qualify by taking and subscribing an oath faithfully to execute the duties of his office to the best of his judgment; and the person elected mayor shall take and subscribe the oath prescribed by law for State officers.
Any such oath of councilmen and mayor may be taken before any officer
authorized by law to administer oaths, and shall, when so taken and
subscribed, be forthwith returned to the recorder clerk
of the town, who shall enter the same on record on in
the minute book of the council.
The councilmen shall judge of the election, qualification and returns of
its members; may fine them members for disorderly
behavior, and, with the concurrence of two-thirds of its membership expel a
member. If any person returned be adjudged disqualified, or be
expelled, a new election to fill the vacancy shall be held in
the town on such date as filled by appointment by the
council may prescribe, except that where there shall be vacancies
in the majority of the council, the circuit court of Lunenburg county,
or the judge thereof in vacation, shall fill such vacancies shall
be filled as provided by law. Any vacancy occurring otherwise during
the term for which any of the said persons have been elected may
be filled by the council by the appointment of anyone eligible for such
office. A vacancy in the office of the mayor may be filled by the council
from the electors of said the town.
§ 7. Organization of meetings of council.
At eight o’clock post meridian on the first day in September
July following a regular municipal election, or if such day
be a Sunday or legal holiday, then on the day following, the council shall
meet at the usual place for holding its meetings, at which time the newly
elected mayor and councilmen, after first having taken the oaths prescribed
by law, shall assume the duties of their offices. At its first meeting the
council shall elect from its members a person to serve as vice-mayor for the
following two years. Thereafter the council shall meet at such times as may
be prescribed by ordinance or resolution. The mayor or any three members of
the council may call special meetings of the council at any time after giving
at least twelve hours written notice to the other members of the purpose,
place, and time of such special meeting. Special meetings may also be held
at any time without notice, provided all members of the council attend.
A majority of all members shall constitute a quorum, but a smaller number may adjourn from time to time, and compel the attendance of absentees.
The council shall fix the compensation of its members and of all other officers and/or agents and employees of the town.
§ 9. Law-enforcement officers.
There shall be a sergeant chief of police for
said the town who shall be elected by the council,
and who shall serve at the will and pleasure of the council.
The sergeant shall be the chief of police officer
of for the town and shall perform such duties and
be invested with such authority as is was provided by
the general common law for sergeants of
towns constables, and shall perform such other duties and be
invested with such other authority as the council may prescribe.
2. That an emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.