CITY CHARTER. 
The City Council shall have the authority to establish a 
Commission of five to serve without compensation to be com- 
posed of citizens who may or may not be members of the City 
Council to be known as the Commission on Beautifying the City. 
The said Commission shall be authorized to look into and con- 
sider all matters pertaining to the beautifying of the city, such 
as the appearance and arrangement of streets, parks, buildings, 
waterways and trees. It shall also be its duty to confer with 
the county authorities and with the owners of suburban land as 
to the proper laying out of their property to conform with such 
general plans as may be devised by said Commission and approv- 
ed by the Council. The said Commission shall from time to 
time make to the Board of Control or City Council such reports 
and recommendations as it may deem best. The Council shall 
have authority upon the request of said Commission to employ- 
an expert to assist the said Commission in its work. The said 
Commission shall organize and ho!d its meetings as may be pro- 
vided for by ordinance. In case of any vacancy in said Commis- 
sion from any cause, it shall be filled by the appointing power 
by which the appointment is made. The City Council is auth- 
orized to make from time to time such appropriations for the 
work of said Commission as it may deem expedient and to make 
such ordinances in connection therewith as it may deem proper. 
Under Section 20, sub-division 7, authority is given to the 
City Council to have shade trees planted along the streets. Sub- 
division 22 gives authority to prevent the running of animals at 
large in the city and to regulate the keeping of same. Sub- 
division 28 provides that the Council shall have power to make 
other and additional ordinances as it may deem necessary for the 
general welfare of the city. Section 21 provides for the imposi- 
tion of fines for violation of its ordinances. 
Under these provisions of the City Charter, the Councils 
passed an ordinance establishing a Commission on Beautifying 
the City of Norfolk providing for the appointment of its mem- 
bers and defining the duties and powers of the said Commission. 
This ordinance approved by the Mayor October 15th, 1908, is as 
follows: 
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