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The code of the city of Charlottesville, Virginia, 1945 :

the charter of the city and the general ordinances of the city ; enacted as a whole April 16, 1945, effective May 1, 1945
  
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DIVISION I.
 1. 
Sec. 1. Enactment.
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Sec. 2. Boundaries—Corporate status.
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Sec. 2½. Same—University of Virginia excluded.
 3. 
Sec. 3. Wards.
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Sec. 4. Elective officers; qualifications; terms; form of government; corporate powers vested in council; salaries of councilmen and mayor; city manager.
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Sec. 5. Officers and clerks elected by council.
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Sec. 6. Oaths of office and qualification of officers; failure to qualify.
 7. 
Sec. 7. Vacancy in office of mayor or councilmen.
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Sec. 8. Council—President and vice-president.
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Sec. 9. Same—Quorum.
 10. 
Sec. 10. Same—President and vice-president entitled to vote.
 11. 
Sec. 11. Same—Authority generally; meetings; journal of proceedings; general ordinance book; inspection of documents and papers.
 12. 
Sec. 12. Same—Minutes.
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Sec. 13. Same—Powers enumerated.
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Sec. 13½. Same—Borrowing in anticipation of taxes; evidences of debt; interest.
 14. 
Sec. 14. Special assessments for local improvements.
 15. 
Sec. 15. Enactment of ordinances, etc.; punishment for violation; enjoining violation; use of county jail; appeal to corporation court.
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Sec. 16. Conservators of the peace.
 17. 
Sec. 17. Budget; levy of taxes.
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Sec. 18. Tax levy; persons and property liable; amount; additional taxation.
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Sec. 18½. Appropriations for advertising city.
 19. 
Sec. 19. Licenses and license taxes; regulation of vehicles for hire.
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Sec. 20. Collection of revenue; custodian of city funds.
 21. 
Sec. 21. Reports of treasurer; publishing.
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Sec. 22. Refunding bonds.
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Sec. 23. Sinking fund.
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Sec. 24. Loans and bonds; debt limitation; bond elections.
 25. 
Sec. 25. Sale of public utilities; approval by voters.
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Sec. 26. City sergeant.
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Sec. 26½. Jailor; deputy jailors.
 27. 
Sec. 27. Authority of officers appointed by council.
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Sec. 28. Prohibition of immoral shows, etc.
 29. 
Sec. 29. Mayor.
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Sec. 30. Civil and police justice.
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Sec. 31. Salaries fixed by council.
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Sec. 32. Stated and special meetings of council.
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Sec. 33. Granting franchises.
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Sec. 34. Receipt and disbursement of moneys by treasurer.
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Sec. 35. Recovery against treasurer and sureties.
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Sec. 36.
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Sec. 37. Collection of fines.
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Sec. 38. Animals running at large.
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Sec. 39. Taking or damaging private property.
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Sec. 40. Encroachments upon streets.
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Sec. 40½. Filing claim for damages condition precedent to action against city.
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Sec. 41. Continuance of rights, etc., of city; ordinances, etc.
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Sec. 42. Corporation court.
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Sec. 43. Water supply and sewerage system.
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Sec. 44. Elections.
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Sec. 45. County property within city limits; arbitration; school property in Charlottesville school district; Miller Manual Labor School.
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Sec. 46. Board of arbitrators; duties; awards.
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Sec. 47. Same person may hold county and city office.
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Sec. 48. When charter effective.
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DIVISION II

  
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Sec. 25. Sale of public utilities; approval 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,[10] 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.

 
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Section 3016 of Michie's Virginia Code of 1942.

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