Sec. 15. Enactment of ordinances, etc.; punishment for
violation; enjoining violation; use of county
jail; appeal to corporation court.
To carry into effect the powers herein enumerated, and all
other powers conferred upon said city and its council by the laws
of Virginia, said council shall have power to make and pass all
proper and needful orders, by-laws, and ordinances not contrary
to the Constitution and laws of said State, and to prescribe
reasonable fines and penalties, including imprisonment in the city
jail, and for the enforcement of the collection of fines, to impose
imprisonment for a period not exceeding ninety days, which fines,
penalties or imprisonment shall be imposed, recovered and enforced
by and under the civil and police justice. The city may
maintain a suit to restrain by injunction, the violation of any ordinance,
notwithstanding such ordinance may provide punishment
for its violation. And the authorities of said city may, in accordance
with the contract between the council of said city and the county of
Albemarle, continue to use the jail of said county for any purpose
for which the use of a jail may be needed by them, under the acts
of the council or of the State of Virginia; provided, however, that
in all cases where a fine or imprisonment is imposed by the civil
and police justice, or by the council, the party or parties so fined or
imprisoned shall have the right of appeal to the corporation court
of said city. All fines imposed for the violation of the city charter,
by-laws, or ordinances, shall be paid into the city treasury.
(1936, c. 273, p. 462.)
The 1936 amendment to this section deleted a former provision limiting
the term of imprisonment to not exceeding six months and deleted
provisions in regard to the imposition of fines, etc., by aldermen
and council. It also changed the references to "police justice" to "civil
and police justice."
