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Table of Contents DIVISION I. PAGE Charter of the City of Charlottesville .................. 1 CHAPTER — DIVISION II. 1. General Provisions ................................ 33 2. Administration .................................... 39 3. Animals, Birds, and Fowls ........................ 98 4. Barbershops ...................................... 107 5. Bicycles .......................................... 110 6. Births, Deaths and Vital Statistics .................. 113 7. Building Code .................................... 116 8. City Planning .................................... 154 9. Courts ........................................... 156 10. Electrical Code ................................... 161 11. Explosives and Inflammables ....................... 176 12. Fire Department .................................. 185 13. Food and Food Establishments ...................... 191 14. Gas .............................................. 202 15. Health and Sanitation ............................ 209 16. Libraries ......................................... 218 17. Milk ............................................ 221 18. Motor Vehicles and Traffic ........................ 238 19. Offenses ......................................... 288 20. Parks and Cemeteries .............................. 319 21. Plumbing, Sewers and Sewage Disposal .............. 326 22. Police ........................................... 341 23. Prison and Prisoners .............................. 354 24. Public Welfare ................................... 359 25. Railroads ........................................ 363 26. School Board .................................... 366 27. Signs and Awnings ................................ 367 28. Slaughterhouses ................................... 374 29. Streets, Sidewalks and Alleys ...................... 377 30. Swimming Pools .................................. 398 31. Water ........................................... 407 32. Weights and Measures ............................ 414 33. Zoning ........................................... 420 Index ............................................... 443 DIVISION I. Charter of City of Charlottesville As contained in an act of the General Assembly of Virginia, approved March 24, 1922 (Acts 1922, p. 697 et seq.), and all acts amendatory thereof, to and including the acts of 1944. § 1. Enactment. § 2. Boundaries—Corporate status. § 2½. Same—University of Virginia excluded. § 3. Wards. § 4. Elective officers; qualifications; terms; form of government; corporate powers vested in council; salaries of councilmen and mayor; city manager. § 5. Officers and clerks elected by council. § 6. Oaths of office and qualification of officers; failure to qualify. § 7. Vacancy in office of mayor or councilmen. § 8. Council—President and vice-president. § 9. Same—Quorum. § 10. Same—President and vice-president entitled to vote. § 11. Same—Authority generally; meetings; journal of proceedings; general ordinance book; inspection of documents and papers. § 12. Same—Minutes. § 13. Same—Powers enumerated. § 13½. Same—Borrowing in anticipation of taxes; evidences of debt; interest. § 14. Special assessments for local improvements. § 15. Enactment of ordinances, etc.; punishment for violation; enjoining violation; use of county jail; appeal to corporation court. § 16. Conservators of the peace. § 17. Budget; levy of taxes. § 18. Tax levy; persons and property liable; amount; additional taxation. § 18½. Appropriations for advertising city. § 19. Licenses and license taxes; regulation of vehicles for hire. § 20. Collection of revenue; custodian of city funds. § 21. Reports of treasurer; publishing. § 22. Refunding bonds. § 23. Sinking fund. § 24. Loans and bonds; debt limitation; bond elections. § 25. Sale of public utilities; approval by voters. § 26. City sergeant. § 26½. Jailer; deputy jailors. § 27. Authority of officers appointed by council. § 28. Prohibition of immoral shows, etc. § 29. Mayor. § 30. Civil and police justice. § 31. Salaries fixed by council. § 32. Stated and special meetings of council. § 33. Granting franchises. § 34. Receipt and disbursement of moneys by treasurer. § 35. Recovery against treasurer and sureties. § 36. (This number was not used in the original act.) § 37. Collection of fines. § 38. Animals running at large. § 39. Taking or damaging private property. § 40. Encroachments upon streets. § 40½. Filing claim for damages condition precedent to action against city. § 41. Continuance of rights, etc., of city; ordinances, etc. § 42. Corporation court. § 43. Water supply and sewerage system. § 44. Elections. § 45. County property within city limits; arbitration; school property in Charlottesville school district; Miller Manual Labor School. § 46. Board of arbitrators; duties; awards. § 47. Same—persons may hold county and city office. § 48. When charter effective. Sec. 1. Enactment. All acts creating and amending the charter of the City of Char lottesville are hereby amended and re-enacted in the manner and form following: Sec. 2. Boundaries—Corporate status. So much of the land as lies contained within the follow ing boundaries, beginning at a point at the intersection of the northerly line of the right-of-way of the Southern Railway Com pany and the western line of Jefferson Park Avenue, or Fry Springs Road, thence along the northern line of said Southern Rail way's right-of-way line north seventy-one degrees twelve minutes east one thousand four hundred and fifty-four feet to a stake, thence north seventy-one degrees forty-nine minutes east one