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187 De~8. 1973: by said board during the preceding six months, whether such moneys shall have been appropriated by the council or received from any other source for the purpose of public education. Separate accounts shall be kept by the said board of the moneys appropriated by the council, and moneys received from other sources, and every such statement shall show the balance of each class of funds on hand or under control of said board as of the date thereof. The said school board shall prepare and submit to the city manager, at the time requested by him, for his information in making up the budget a detailed estimate of the amount of money required for the conduct of the public schools of the city for the-e.nsui~lg fiscal year budgetary period, with an estimate of the amount of all funds which~will probably be received ~y said board for the purpose of public education from sources other, than appropriation by the council. No money shall be paid out or become available to be paid out for any contemplated expenditure unless and until there has first been made an appropriation for such contempl~ expendit~-re by the council. Should any moneys, other than capital items, derived from sources other than State funds be unexpended in any year and thus become available for use the next year pursuant to ~$~C2£2~t38 of the Code of Virginia, the council may provide in the budget that the city's share of the appropriation for the next ensuing year shall be decreased in a like amount. Section 9.01. Mmni¢ipat 68~rt. District Courts. There-shatt-be-a-m~nieipat-ee~r~-fer-the-~ity-e~-Pertsmo~_. S~ah ee~rt shall have beth ¢ivit and er~minat }~risdietien and~s~h e~her }nd~e~al pewees as are eenferred There shall be a general district court and a juvenile and domestic relations district court for the city of Portsmouth.~ Such courts shall have such jurisdiction and other ~udicial powers as conferred by general law. / Section 10.08. Judicial R~view. A petition, which complies with the requirements of this article as to form, number of~ s~i~gners, and manner of ~xecution, shall be accepted as prima facie sufficient. The circuit ~s~ngs cou~t of ~he city shall have sugary jurisdiction upon complaint of an elector to determine the sufficiency o~ the petition and the genuineness of the signa~tures thereon, and th~ qualifications of the electors signing the same, ahd may ~ ~k:~ such order in the premises as justice may require; but such proceedings shall be instituted within ten d~ys after presentation of the petition, and the burden of proof she'll be on the complainant. Section 10.09. Recall of Elective Officers. (a) Any elective officer of the city may be removed from office at any time after one year from the beginnin~ of his term of office by the electors qualified to vote for a successor for such incumbent. The procedure to effect such removal shall be as hereinafter set forth. (b) A petition signed by electors equal in n~ber to at least thirty per centum of the electors of the cit~ voting for governor in the last preceding gubernatorial election, and demanding th~ election of a successor of the officer sought to be removed, shall be filed with the clprk of the circuit court ~f h~s~im~s which petition shall contain a general statemen~ of the grounds upon which the election of a successor is sought. Such petition may~ be filed at any time after one year has elapsed since the begi~ing of the term of the official sought to be removed. Each signer shall add to his signature his place of residence, giving street and number if any, and the date s~gned. Such petztzon may~ be in the form of separate papers, but each separate paper to which signatures are appended shall contain at the top thereof the original petition or a duplicate statement thereof, and when bound together and offered for filing, such separate papers shall be d~emed to constitute one petition with respect to the election of the successor of the officer or officers named therein. One of the signers of such petition hall make oath b~fore a proper offzclal that the statements made there~n ar~ true, as he belzeves, ~nd upon such separate paper, the circulator of the petition to-Wh:ich~signatures are appended shall make oath that each signature to such paper is th6~genuine signature o~ the person whose name it purports to be, and that it was signed in his presence. (c) If it appears that the petition is signed by the requisite percentage of electors, the same shall b~ accepted as prima facie regular and sufficient, but it shall be subject to summary review in the same manner as provided in $ei~8.8~ e~l~his article. (d) If the petition shall be sufficient, and'if the officer or officers whose remow is sought shall not resign within five days after the. sufficiency of the petition has been determined by ~he~af~ud§6 a~ the circuit court ef h~ings, the a judge thereof shall thereupon order and fix a day for holding an election for the selection of a succes~ to each officer named in said petition, which election shall be held not less than thirty nor more than forty days from the presentation of the petition or fro~ the making of any court order thereon. TB~cSuch judge ef the cenrt ef h~stings shall cause Publication of notice and all arrangements to be made for holding such election and the same shall be conducted and the result thereof returned and declared in all respects as ~ other