CHAPTER 314
An Act to amend and reenact §3 of Chapter 161 of the Acts of
Assembly of 1918, which provided a charter for the Town of Pocahontas in
Tazewell County, relating to elections.
[S 142]
Approved March 21, 2012
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §3 of Chapter 161 of the Acts of Assembly of
1918 is amended and reenacted as follows:
§3. Notwithstanding the provisions of
§ 2, beginning Beginning with the regularly
scheduled municipal elections to be held in May of 2002
November of 2012, there shall be elected a council consisting of a mayor
and four councilmen. The mayor and councilmen shall enter upon the duties of
their offices on July January 1 next succeeding their election
and shall continue in office for a term of two years and until their successors
are duly elected and qualified. The term of the mayor and councilmen serving
at the time of the change in the date of the municipal elections shall be
extended to December 31, 2012.
2. That an emergency exists and this act is in force
from its passage.
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