COLLINS v. CITY OF NORFOLK

Record No. 911906.

422 S.E.2d 782 (1992)

Herbert M. COLLINS, Sr., et al., v. CITY OF NORFOLK, Intervenor.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

November 6, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew M. Sacks (Sacks, Sacks & Imprevento, on briefs), for appellants.

Jack E. Greer; M. Wayne Ringer (Philip R. Trapani, City Atty., Daniel R. Hagemeister, Asst. City Atty., Williams, Kelly & Greer, on brief), for appellee.

Present: CARRICO, C.J., and COMPTON, STEPHENSON, WHITING, LACY and KEENAN, JJ., and POFF, Senior Justice.


COMPTON, Justice.

The dispositive issue in this appeal is whether the trial court erred in ruling that a referendum election authorized by a city charter provision violates the Constitution of Virginia, when the referendum seeks to amend a city ordinance insofar as it appropriates sums for two items in the city's capital improvement budget.

The facts pertinent to the issue are undisputed. In May 1991, the City Council of Norfolk enacted Ordinance No. 36,448...

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