VIRGINIA ACTS OF ASSEMBLY -- CHAPTER
An Act to amend and reenact §§3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, and 3.4:1,
as amended, of Chapter 247 of the Acts of Assembly of 1968, which provided a
charter for the Town of Culpeper in the County of Culpeper, relating to the
town council.
[H 165]
Approved
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §§3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, and 3.4:1, as amended, of
Chapter 247 of the Acts of Assembly of 1968 are amended and reenacted as
follows:
§3.1. Composition of council; election, qualifications and
term of office of councilmen and mayor council members.
The town of Culpeper shall be governed by a town council
composed of eight councilmen council members and a mayor, to be
elected from the town at large. Councilmen Council members shall
be qualified electors of the town, and shall serve for terms of four
years. Four councilmen council members shall be elected on the
first Tuesday in May, nineteen hundred eighty, after the first
Monday in November 2015 and every four years thereafter. Four councilmen
council members shall be elected on the first Tuesday in May,
nineteen hundred seventy-eight, after the first Monday in November 2017
and every four years thereafter. Council members elected to terms ending
June 30, 2016, shall remain in office through December 31, 2015. Council
members elected to terms ending June 30, 2018, shall remain in office through
December 31, 2017.
§3.2. When terms of office to begin.
The terms of office for the town councilmen council
members shall begin on the first day of July January next
following their election.
§3.3. Vacancies on council.
Vacancies on the town council shall be filled from among
the qualified electors of the town within sixty days for the unexpired terms by
a majority vote of the remaining members; provided, that where a vacancy shall
occur more than six months prior to the regular town election next succeeding
that at which the member of council whose seat was vacated was elected, the
person so appointed shall serve only until a successor for the unexpired term
shall have been elected in a special election held at the same time as that succeeding
regular town election and the person so elected qualifies as provided by law
and takes office on July 1 next following his election in accordance
with general law.
§3.4. Election and term of office of mayor and vice-mayor.
The mayor shall be a qualified elector of the town and shall
serve for a term of four years. The election of the mayor for a four-year term
shall be on the first Tuesday in May, 1986, after the first
Monday in November 2017 and every four years thereafter. The mayor
elected at the May 2014 election shall remain in office through December 31,
2017. At the first meeting of the town council held on or after July
January one in each even-numbered year, the town council shall elect from
its members, by a majority vote of the members elected, a vice-mayor, who shall
serve for a term of two years.
§3.4:1. Vacancy in the office of mayor.
A vacancy in the office of the mayor shall be filled for
the unexpired term within sixty days by appointment of a qualified elector of
the town by a majority vote of the remaining members of council; provided that
where a vacancy shall occur more than six months prior to the regular town
election next succeeding that at which the mayor was elected, the person so
appointed shall serve only until a successor for the unexpired term shall have
been elected in a special election held at the same time as that succeeding
regular town election and the person so elected qualifies as provided by law
and takes office on July 1 next following his election. Members of council are
eligible to be appointed to fill the mayor's vacancy. Where a vacancy shall
occur six months or less prior to the regular town election for mayor, no
appointment shall be made and the vice mayor shall possess the powers and
discharge the duties of the mayor for the unexpired term in accordance
with general law.
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