12-27-1940 Minutes
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Under and by virtue of the authority conferred upon the Board II
of Supervisors of Chestertield County, Virginia, by an Act
of the General Assembly of Virginia, approved Maroh 28, 1938, and I,'
known as Chapter 304 ot said Acts of Assembly, this Board of
Supervisors of Chesterfield County, Virginia, having carefully
considered the matter, doth ordain as follows: !
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That a license be, and the same herebJi1is, required of every person, I
firm, company, association or corporation who or which maintains and/o~
operates a plaoe of business oommonly known as an "automobile grave- I
yard" in the County of Chesterfield, Virginia. I
That a tax on the license required in section 1 of this Ordinance is II
hereby levied and imposed and shall be in the following amount.viz.:,
twenty oents on each two hundred (I.'200) square teet of area encompassei
within any lot or place where the business of maintaining and/or
operating an "automobile graveyard" is conducted, a minimum license I
tax in any case. however, to be fifty dollars ('50.00). I
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Any person, firm, company, association or corporation who or whioh II'
maintains and/or operates any place of business commonly known as an
"automobile graveyard" in the County of Chesterfield, Virginia, wi thOU'
having tirst obtained the lioense imposed on such business, or shall
fail or refuse to pay any tax provided for herein shall be deemed
guilty of the viola. tion of this ordinance and upon conviotion thereof ~
shall be punished by a fine not exoeeding $50.00 and by oonfinement
in jail not exceeding thirty days either or both. Eaoh day's
oontinuanoe to violate the terms and provisions of this ordinance shal
be deemed to be a separate offense. I
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VIRGINIA: At an adjourned meeting of
the Board of ~upervisors of
Chesterfield County, held
on December 27. 1940, at
8:00 p.m. at Chesterfield
Count~ou5e, and in the 165th
year of the Commonwealth
Present:
H. L. Chalk~ey,
J. G. Hening
H. T. Goyne ,
'vi. A. Horner
T.D. Watkins
Chairman
Absent: P.W.Covington
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This day a letter dated Ootober 11, 1940, from His Excellency, Governor James I
H. Price, requesting this County's cooperation in the "Civil Protective
Mobilization Plan for Virginia". was read betore the Board. Upon oonsideratioi'
whereof it is resolved that the County Chlet of Polioe be, and he is hereby
authorized and empowered to designate certain members of this County's Police i
force to act in case of emergency in compliance with the aforesaid request of I
Governor Price in the matter of the "Civil Protective Mobilization Plan for '
Virginia" . I
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This day, in accordance with this Board's resolution of December 10, 1940. and t
after pUblication of the notice as required by Law, the matter of the considerati~n
for adoption an ordinance imposing a license upon every person, tir.m, oompany, I
association, and corporation who or which maintains and/or or operates a plaoe i
of business commonly known as an "automobile graveyard"; designating what shall
be deemed an "automobl1e graveyard", was again brought.before this Board. No~
theretore, on motion ot Vi.A.Horner, it is resolved that this Board adopt the
ordinance proposed, and the same is accordingly adopted in the following words
and figure s, to -wi t:
AN
ORDINANCE
Imposing a license upon every person, firm, company, association
and corporation who or which maintains and/or operates a plaoe
of business commonly known as an "automobile graveyard";
designating what shall be deeme.d an "automobile graveyard";
providing for a tax on such lioense;.and providing for a penalty
for violation ot such ordinanoe.
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Section 1.
Section 2.
Section 3.
OJection 4.
.ns used in this ordinanoe the term "automobile graveyard" shall mean
any lot or place which is exposed to the weather upon which more
than five (5) motor vehicles of any kind inoapable of being operates.
are placed.
Section 5.
Trial of all violaylons of this ordinance shall be emtoroed by
prooeedings before the Trial Justi. ce Court in like manner and with
like right of appeal as is provided in misdemeanor cases.
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Section 6.
If any seotion or paste of OR seotion of this ordinanoe is hereafter
held by any Court of oompetent jurisdiction to be unconstitutional
qnd invalid, such decision shall in no wise ~ftect or render void
the remainder of this ordinanoe. '
Section 7.
This ordinance shall become effective after it shall have been
published in full for two (2) suocessive weeks in a newspaper having
general ciroulation in the County of Chesterfield, Virginia.
Be it remembered, that H.T.Goyne, did not vote in the matter of an Ordinance
licensing "automobile graveyards" due to his operating an automobile
business, and requested that this action be so reoorded.
Again in the matter of the reopening of the Old Stage Coach Road, the Chairman
appointed H.T.Goyne, Supervisor and Wm.S.Coburn~ Road Engineer, to interview
Mr.W.L.Broaddus ot W.L.Broaddus, Inc. in this matter.
Ordered that the meeting be now adjourned until January 14, 1940 at
10:00 a.m.
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