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~HEREAS, Sections 15-65~3 and I5-77.74 of the Code of Virginia, 1950, as amended, provide for amendr~ent of city chartsrs upon the holding of a public hearing and request of the City Council to the General Assembly; and WHB~AS, the City Council is of the opinion that certain amendmmnts to the Charter of the City of Portsmouth are necessary and desirable at this time, and has held the public hearing required by law. NO~, THEReFORe, BB IT R~SOLVHD by the Council of the City of Portsmouth, %firginia, that the City Attorney is hereby directed to prepare, and the City Manager to transmit to the General Assembly, together with certified copies of this resolUtion, drafts of bills amending the hereinafter mentioned sections of the Charter of the City of Portsmouth so that said amended sections shall read as follows: CHAPTER III. SECTION 25. Powers of the Council, The powers set forth in Sections 1S.i-841 through 15.1-907, inclusive, of Chap:er 18 of Title 15 of the Code of Virginia, as in force on July one, nineteen hundred and sixty-four, a~e hereby conferred on and vested in the city of Portsmouth. CHAPTER III. SECTION 23(F). Condemnation Proceedings. In addition to the Other powers conferred by law the city may, in exercising the right of eminent domain within the city in connection with streets, off street parking, public or municipal buildings and parks and within or without the city in connection with wate~orks and facilities related thereto, make use of the procedure prescribed by the general law or may elect to proceed as herein- after provided. In the latter event the ordinance directing acquisition of any property shall provide therein' for each parcel the funds necessary, to compensate the owners thereof for the property to be acquired or damaged. Upon the adoption of such ordinance the city may file a petition for condemnation in the clerk's office of a court having jurisdiction'. Upon the filing of the petition and the funds provided by the council for the purpose having been duly deposited to the credit of court, if the court is of the opinion that the property or interest or estate therein to be acquired is for the uses and purposes of the city as provided by law, it may order that the interest or estate of the owner of such property shall terminate and the title to such property or the interest er estate robe taken in such property shall be vested absolutely in the city ~nd such owner shall have such interest or estate in the funds so deposited as he had in the property taken or damaged mud all liens by deed of trust~ judgmen~t or otherwise upon said pro.pert.y .or estate shall be transferred to such funds and the city shall have the r~gat to enter upon and take possession of such pl~)porty foz its uses and purposes and to construct ~ts works or improvements.~ .The clerk oz the court in w~ich such proceeding is instituted shall make and~ certify a copy of the order and deliver or transmit the same to the clerk of thg ~ourt in which deeds are admitted to record, who shall record the same in hi~ deed book mud index it in the name of the record title owner of such property and in the name of the city.