Bill Text: VA SB322 | 2022 | Regular Session | Prefiled
Bill Title: The Plains, Town of; amending charter, election dates and terms of offices.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2022-04-11 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0335) [SB322 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2022-SB322-Prefiled.html
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §§3.1, 3.2, 3.3, and 4.3 of Chapter 251 of the Acts of Assembly of 1972 are amended and reenacted as follows:
§3.1. Composition of council; election, qualification and term of office of councilmen and mayor.
The Town of The Plains shall be governed by a town council
composed of six councilmen and the mayor, to be elected from the town at large.
The councilmen and the mayor shall be qualified electors of the town, and shall serve for terms of
four years. At the election held on the first Tuesday following the
first Monday in May,
1972 November
2022, the three councilmen
receiving the highest number of votes
elected shall serve for terms of four years; the three councilmen receiving the next highest
number of votes shall serve for terms of two years. At the
election held on the first Tuesday following the
first Monday in May,
1974,
November 2024 and in every election thereafter, the three councilmen elected shall
serve for terms of four years. The mayor
shall be elected on the first Tuesday following the
first Monday in May,
1972,
November 2024 and every four years thereafter.
§3.2. When terms of office to begin.
The terms of office for the town councilmen and mayor 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 within
forty-five days for the unexpired terms by a majority vote of the remaining
members;,
provided, that where a vacancy shall occur occurs more than six months
prior to a regular town election, such vacancy shall be filled by a majority
vote of the remaining members only until a successor shall have been chosen by
the qualified electors of the town and shall have qualified as provided by law.
In the town election to be held on the first Tuesday
following the first Monday in May
November next following the occurrence of such vacancy,
there shall be elected by the qualified electors of the town a member of the
council to fill each such vacancy for the unexpired term. The term of office of
any councilman so elected shall begin on the first day of
July January
next following his election.
§4.3. Term of office.
Officers and deputy and assistant officers appointed by the
town council shall be appointed for a term of two years, unless otherwise
provided by this Charter or by ordinance of the town council. Such term shall
begin on the first day in July January
in each even-numbered year.