CHARTER  


Chapter 1. Incorporation and Boundaries
Chapter 2. Powers of City
Chapter 3. Boroughs; City Council
Chapter 4. City Manager
Chapter 5. Budget, Etc.
Chapter 6. Borrowing
Chapter 7. Administrative Departments Generally
Chapter 8. Financial Administration
Chapter 9. Department of Law, Etc.
CHAPTERS 10—12.1. [Reserved]
§§ 10.01—12.06. [Reserved.]
Chapter 13. Department of Public Health
Chapter 14. Department of Social Service
Chapter 15. Department of Agriculture
Chapter 16. Department of Education
CHAPTERS 17—18.4. [Reserved]
§§ 17.01—18.015. [Reserved.]
Chapter 19. City Planning
Chapter 20. Administration of Justice
CHARTER COMPARATIVE TABLE

An Act to effectuate the consolidation of Princess Anne County and the City of Virginia Beach, a city of the second class, into the City of Virginia Beach, a city of the first class; and to this end to validate, ratify and confirm the consolidation agreement between Princess Anne County and the City of Virginia Beach; to provide a Charter for the new City of Virginia Beach, and to repeal Chapter 33 of the Acts of Assembly of 1952, approved February 14, 1952, which incorporated the City of Virginia Beach, and all amendments thereto.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.

The consolidation of the City of Virginia Beach and Princess Anne County into the consolidated City of Virginia Beach, a city of the first class, as provided in the consolidation agreement to which reference is hereby made and which is made part hereof, is hereby validated, ratified and confirmed in all respects and such consolidation shall be effective on and after January 1, 1963.

2.

Chapter 33 of the Acts of Assembly of 1952 and all amendments thereto, which is entitled "An act to incorporate the city of Virginia Beach; and to repeal Chapter 76 of the Acts of Assembly 1906, approved March 6, 1906, which incorporated the town of Virginia Beach, and all amendments thereto", approved February 14, 1952, is repealed as of the first moment of January one, nineteen hundred sixty-three.

3.

Be it further enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

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Editor's note— The Charter is derived from chapter 147 of the 1962 Acts of the General Assembly and amendments thereto and is included herein as it appeared in the 1965 Virginia Beach Code, as supplemented through the 1978 Acts. Subsequent amendments have been added with the publication of this Code. Amendments to the original Charter are indicated by history notes appearing in parentheses at the end of the amended sections. The absence of such a note indicates that the section is derived, unamended, from Acts 1962. Ch. 147.