Bill Text: VA SB1429 | 2017 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Onley, Town of; amending charter, shifts municipal elections from May to November.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-03-16 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0582) [SB1429 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2017-SB1429-Chaptered.html
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §3.1 of Chapters 654 and 693 of the Acts of Assembly of 2005 is amended and reenacted as follows:
§3.1. Election, qualification and term of office for mayor and council.
The Town of Onley shall be governed by a town council composed
of six council members and a mayor, all of whom shall be qualified voters of
the town and shall be elected by the qualified voters of the town in the manner
provided by law from the town at large. The council members and mayor in office
at the time of adoption of this charter on July 1, 2017, shall
continue in office until the expiration of the terms for which they were
elected or until their successors are duly elected and qualified. An election
for all council members and the mayor shall be held on the first Tuesday
following the first Monday in May 2006, November 2018 and
on the first Tuesday following the first Monday in May
November of every even-numbered year thereafter. The council members and
mayor so elected shall take office on the first day of the following July,
January and shall each serve until their successors are elected and
have qualified.
