Bill Text: VA HB315 | 2022 | Regular Session | Prefiled
Bill Title: Roanoke, City of; amending charter, municipal elections.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-03-07 - Defeated by Senate (21-Y 18-N) [HB315 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2022-HB315-Prefiled.html
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §§4, 10, and 16, as severally amended, of Chapter 216 of the Acts of Assembly of 1952 are amended and reenacted as follows:
§4. Composition of council; terms of members; designation of vice-mayor; vacancies.
The Council as presently composed shall continue and shall
consist of seven members, one of which shall be the mayor, all of whom shall be
elected at large and shall serve for the respective terms as hereinafter
provided. The members of council shall serve for terms of four years, from the
first day of July January
next following the date of their election and until their successors shall have
been elected and qualified. The mayor shall serve for a term of four years from
the first day of July January
next following the date of election and until a successor shall have been
elected and qualified;, provided, however, that on
the first Tuesday following the first Monday in May November, nineteen hundred seventy-two two thousand twenty, and on
such day each four years thereafter, three council members and a mayor shall be
elected for a term of four years, and on the first
Tuesday following the first Monday
in May November, nineteen hundred seventy-four two thousand twenty-two, and
each four years thereafter, three council members shall be elected for a term
of four years.
The member of council receiving the largest number of votes in
each regular councilmanic election shall be the vice-mayor of the city, for a
term of two years, to commence on the first day of July January next following the
date of such election and until the vice-mayor's successor shall have been
elected and qualified.
The council shall be a continuing body, and no measure pending before such body shall abate or be discontinued by reason of the expiration of the term of office or removal of the members of council, or any of them. No person may be a candidate for the office of mayor and for the office of council member in the same election.
Vacancies in the council or vacancy in the office of mayor
shall be filled within thirty forty-five days, and until the
day upon which the terms of office of council members elected in the next
following regular councilmanic election shall commence, by a majority vote of
the remaining members of council, and if as much as two years of any such
unexpired term of a member of council or of the mayor remains at the time of
such next regular councilmanic election, a council member or a mayor, as the
case by be, shall be elected at such election for the remaining portion of such
unexpired term.
§10. Meetings of council generally.
At two o'clock post meridian on the first Monday of July January
next following each regular municipal election, or if such day be a city
holiday, then on the day following, the council shall meet at the usual place
for holding meetings of the legislative body of the city, at which time the
newly elected council members shall assume the duties of their offices.
Thereafter, the council shall meet at
such times as may be prescribed by ordinance or resolution, provided, that it
shall hold at least two regular meetings each calendar month, and it shall so
order and schedule meetings as to promptly and orderly attend to the business
and legislative affairs of the city. The mayor, any member of the council, or
the city manager,
may call special meetings of the council at any time upon at least twelve hours
written notice to the mayor and each member, served personally or left at his
usual place of business or residence; or such meeting may be held at any time
without notice, on call of the mayor or the city manager provided at least five
members of the council attend such meeting. All meetings of the council shall
be public, and any citizen may have access to the minutes and records thereof
at all reasonable times, except where the public interest may require closed
meetings.
§16. Time of holding municipal elections.
A municipal election shall be held on the first
Tuesday following the first Monday in May November
in nineteen hundred seventy-two two thousand twenty, and every
second year thereafter which shall be known as the regular election for the
election of council members.
