Division 3. Ordinances and Resolutions.[25]
Sec. 2-52. Style of ordinances and resolutions.
The style in which ordinances shall be enacted by the council
shall be as follows: "Be it ordained by the Council of the
City of Charlottesville," and that in which resolutions shall
be passed shall be, "Be it resolved by the Council of the City
of Charlottesville." (Code 1959, § 2-52.)
Sec. 2-53. Procedure in enacting general ordinances.[26]
No general ordinance shall be passed by the city council on
the same day of its introduction, nor shall any such ordinance
be valid unless at least three days intervene between its introduction
and passage; provided, that by a four-fifths vote of
the city council, a general ordinance may be passed on the
same date of its introduction and be valid; provided further,
that any zoning ordinance or amendment to the zoning ordinance
may be passed at the same meeting at which a public
hearing on such zoning ordinance or amendment to the zoning
ordinance is held. (Code 1959, § 2-53; 2-4-63.)
Sec. 2-54. To be in writing.
Every proposed ordinance and resolution having the effect
of an ordinance shall be in writing. (Code 1959, § 2-54.)
Sec. 2-55. Repealing and amending ordinances.
No ordinance shall be amended or repealed except by an
ordinance regularly introduced and adopted. (Code 1959, § 255.)
Sec. 2-56. Filling blanks involving money or time.
In filling blanks in ordinances or resolutions involving
money or time, the question shall be put first upon the largest
sum or longest time. (Code 1959, § 2-56.)
Sec. 2-57. Ordinances passed subsequent to adoption of Code.
Each ordinance passed subsequent to the adoption of this
Code shall as far as practical be numbered in accordance with
the numbering of sections in this Code. If such ordinance
repeals a part of this Code, the same shall be given the number
of the repealed section. If such ordinance amends or reenacts
a part of this Code, the same shall be given the same
number as the section amended or re-enacted. (Code 1959, § 257.)
Sec. 2-58. Effective date.
Every ordinance shall take effect from the date of its passage
unless otherwise provided. (Code 1959, § 2-58.)
Sec. 2-59. Appropriating money, imposing taxes, etc.
For every ordinance or resolution appropriating money exceeding
one hundred dollars, imposing or releasing taxes, authorizing
the borrowing of money, creating a debt or donating
any property of the city, where the value of such property is
one hundred dollars or more, a vote of a majority of all members
elected to the council shall be necessary and the "ayes"
and "noes" shall be entered on the journal of the council.
No ordinance or resolution appropriating money exceeding
the sum of one thousand dollars, imposing taxes or authorizing
the borrowing of money shall be passed by the city council
on the same day of its introduction, nor shall any such
ordinance or resolution be valid unless at least three days
intervene between its introduction and passage, but this paragraph
shall not apply to the annual appropriations as provided
in section 2-18.[27]
(Code 1959, § 2-59; 5-7-51; 7-6-64.)
Sec. 2-60. Appropriating money in excess of annual appropriation.
No money shall be expended on any department of the city
government beyond the amount estimated in the budget for
such department in the general appropriation ordinance for
the fiscal year unless such expenditure be authorized by the
recorded vote of three-fifths of all the members elected to the
city council. (Code 1959, § 2-60.)
Sec. 2-61. Appropriating money for improvements outside
city.
No ordinance or resolution appropriating money for the
purpose of improving streets, airports and bridges located
outside of the city shall be passed by the city council except
by a recorded affirmative vote of four-fifths of all members
elected to the city council. (Code 1959, § 2-61.)
Sec. 2-62. Granting aid to various associations or to public
charity.
No ordinance or resolution granting aid to military, agricultural,
literary or benevolent associations or to the public
charity shall be passed except by the vote of three-fifths of
the members elected to the city council. (Code 1959, § 2-62.)
Sec. 2-63. Disposition of public property; granting franchise.[28]
No ordinance or resolution granting, leasing, selling or
otherwise disposing of any public property or franchise shall
be valid unless the same be passed by the council by a recorded
affirmative vote of three-fourths of all members elected
to the city council.
No franchise, lease or right of any kind to the use of any
such public property in a manner not permitted to the general
public shall be granted for a period of over thirty years.
Before granting such franchise or privilege for a term of
thirty years, except for a trunk railway, bids therefor shall
be advertised once a week for four successive weeks in a
newspaper published in the city. Such grant, and any contract
in pursuance thereof, may provide that upon the termination
of the grant, the plant, as well as the property, if
any, of the grantee in the streets, avenues and other public
places, shall thereupon, without compensation to the grantee,
or upon the payment of a fair valuation therefor, be and
become the property of the city, but that the grantee shall
be entitled to no payment by reason of the value of the franchise.
Every such grant shall specify the mode of determining
any valuation therein provided for and shall make adequate
provision by way of forfeiture of the grant, or otherwise,
to secure efficiency of public service at reasonable rates
and the maintenance of the property in good order throughout
the term of the grant.
All persons to whom privileges or franchises have been or
may be granted by the city council shall pay in advance for the
printing and advertising of all ordinances granting such privileges
or franchises after the approval thereof and all of such
printing shall be done under the supervision and direction of
the clerk of the council.
The rights of the city in its gas, water, electric works and
sewer system, now owned or hereafter acquired, shall not be
sold even after such action of the council as is prescribed in
the first paragraph of this section, until and except such sale
shall have been approved by a majority of the qualified voters
of the city, voting on the question at a special election ordered
by the council, and subject in other respects to the provisions
of section 27 of the Charter applicable to a special election.
(Code 1959, § 2-63.)
