Virginia HB 749: Norfolk, City of; amending charter, employees of officers, vagrants.

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CHAPTER 134 

An Act to amend and reenact �� 2, 11, and 114, as amended, of 
Chapter 34 of the Acts of Assembly of 1918, which provided a charter for the 
City of Norfolk, relating to employees of officers; vagrants. 

[H 749] 

Approved March 4, 2020 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That �� 2, 11, and 114, as amended, of Chapter 34 of the 
Acts of Assembly of 1918 are amended and reenacted as follows:

� 2. Power of the city.

In addition to the powers mentioned in the preceding section, 
the said city shall have power:

(1) To raise annually by taxes and assessments in said city 
such sums of money as the council hereinafter provided for shall deem necessary 
for the purposes of said city, and in such manner as said council shall deem 
expedient, in accordance with the Constitution and the laws of this State and 
of the United States; provided, however, that it shall impose no tax on the 
bonds of this city.

(2) To impose special or local assessments for local 
improvements and enforce payment thereof, subject, however, to such limitations 
prescribed by the Constitution of Virginia as may be in force at the time of 
the imposition of such special or local assessments.

(3) Subject to the provisions of the Constitution of Virginia 
and of � 86, as amended, of this charter, to contract debts, borrow money and 
make and issue evidence of indebtedness.

(4) To expend the money of the city for all lawful purposes.

(5) To acquire by purchase, gift, devise, condemnation or 
otherwise, property, real or personal, or any estate or interest therein within 
or without the city or State and for any of the purposes of the city; and to 
hold, improve, sell, lease, mortgage, pledge or otherwise dispose of the same 
or any part thereof.

(6) To acquire, in any lawful manner, for the purpose of 
encouraging commerce and manufacture, lands within and without the city not 
exceeding at any one time 5,000 acres in the aggregate, and from time to time 
to sell or lease the same or any part thereof for industrial or commercial uses 
and purposes.

(7) To make and maintain public improvements of all kinds, 
including municipal and other public buildings, armories, markets and all 
buildings and structures necessary or appropriate for the use of the 
departments of fire and police; and to acquire by condemnation or otherwise all 
lands, riparian and other rights and easements necessary for such improvements, 
or any of them.

(8) To furnish all local public service; to purchase, hire, 
construct, own, maintain and operate, or lease local public utilities, to 
acquire by condemnation or otherwise, within or without the corporate limits, 
land and property necessary for any such purposes.

(9) To acquire, in any lawful manner, in any county of the 
State, or without the State, such water, lands and lands under water as the 
council of said c