14101736D
HOUSE BILL NO. 165
Offered January 8, 2014
Prefiled December 20, 2013
A BILL 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.
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Patron-- Scott, E.T.
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Committee Referral Pending
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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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