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Bill Tracking - 2011 session> Legislation Page 1 of 15 2011 SESSION CHAPTER 640 An Act to provide a new charter for the City of Portsmouth and to repeal Chapter 471 of the Acts of Assembly of 1970, as amended, which provided a charter for the City of Portsmouth. [8 1138] Approved March 26, 2011 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia: 1. CHARTER FOR THE CITY OF PORTSMOUTH. CHAPTER 1. INCORPORATION AND BOUNDARIES. 91.01. Incorporation. The inhabitants of the territory comprised within the limits of the City of Portsmouth, as they are or hereafter may be established by law, shall continue to be body politic and corporate and as such shall have perpetual succession, may sue and be sued, . contract and be contracted with and may have a corporate seal, which it may alter at its pleasure. 91.02. Boundaries. The boundaries of the city shall be as described in Chapter 265, Acts of Assembly, 1858; as codified by Chapter 370, Acts of Assembly, .1894; by an order of the Circuit Court of Norfolk County entered November 21, 1908, in its Common Law Order Book 21, page 467; by an order of the Supreme Court of Appeals confirming an order of the Circuit Court of Norfolk County entered June 26, 1918, which said order of the Supreme Court of Appeals is recorded in the Circuit Court of Norfolk County in Common Law Order Book 27, page 141; by an order of the Circuit Court of the City of Portsmouth entered September 25, 1933, in its Common Law Order Book 4, page 421; by an orderofthe Supreme Court of Appeals confirming an order of the Circuit Court of Norfolk County entered September 27, 1946, which said order of the Supreme Court of Appeals is recorded in the Circuit Court of Norfolk County in Common Law Order Book 44, page 583; by an order of the Circuit Court of Norfolk County entered August 20, 1959, in its Common Law Order Book 58, page 185; and by an order of the Circuit Court of the City of Chesapeake entered October 2, 1967, in its Common Law Order Book 66, page 357. CHAPTER 2. POWERS. 92.01. General Grant. The City of Portsmouth shall have and it may exercise all the powers granted to cities by Article VII of the Constitution of Virginia, and Title 15.2 and other applicable titles of the Code of Virginia, as those laws may be amendedfrom time to time. The powers thus granted are those that are explicitly granted and those that are reasonably inferred therefrom. The city shall also have the power to take other official actions not in conflict with the Constitution of Virginia or other laws of Virginia for the preservation of the safety, health, peace, good order, comfort, convenience, morals and welfare of its citizens. 92.02. Eminent Domain. The powers of eminent domain set forth in Title 15.2 and Title 33.1 of the Code of Virginia, 1950, as amended, and all amendments thereto, with necessary changes in points of detail, are hereby conferred on the city. In any cases in which a petition for condemnation is filed by or on behalf of the city, a true copy of the resolution or ordinance duly adopted by the City Council declaring the necessity for any taking or damaging of any property within or without the city, for the purposes of the city, shall be filed with the petition and shall constitute sufficient evidence of the necessity of the nttn' / /li <;;: virO"ini ~ O"ov/r.O"i -nin/lp.O"nfl04 P.YP.? 111 +fnl+rH A POfl40 fl/~n/'J011