Sec. 25. Sale of public utilities to be approved by voters.
The rights of the city in its gas, water and electric works and
sewer plant, now owned, or hereafter acquired, shall not be sold
even after such action of the council as is prescribed by section
three thousand and sixteen of the Code of Virginia of nineteen
hundred and nineteen, 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 twenty-four
of this charter applicable to a special election.
