15.2-4115 - Effect when city becomes town; officers.
§ 15.2-4115. Effect when city becomes town; officers.
When a city becomes a town under the provisions of this chapter, itsordinances shall become the ordinances of the town, insofar as they areapplicable, and consistent with law, until they are repealed, and theexistence of such city as an independent city of the Commonwealth shallterminate, as shall the terms of office and the rights, powers, duties andcompensation of its constitutional officers and their deputies and employees.All officers, agents and employees of the city, including the mayor and themembers of city council, shall continue to serve as the officers, agents andemployees of the town, until their positions or offices are terminated asprovided by law, or in the case of the mayor and members of council, untiltheir successors are elected or appointed. The circuit court shall order anelection to be held pursuant to § 24.2-682 not less than thirty nor more than180 days after the date of the special court order granting town status, butat least thirty days before the effective date of the transition from city totown status, at which election the town council and other elected officers ofthe town shall be selected. The terms of such officers shall commence on theday the transition from city to town status becomes effective and shallcontinue, unless otherwise removed, until their successors have been electedand assume office. The successors or all such officers whose first electionis herein provided for shall thereafter be elected at the time, in the mannerand for the terms provided by general law.
(1988, c. 881, § 15.1-965.24; 1997, c. 587.)