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12 TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1986 BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED by said Council that, an emergency existing, this ordinance shall be in force on and after August 13, 1986. In tentative acceptance of the Planning Commission's recommendation (by report dated July 22, 1986) that an unimproved section of Branch Street, being between Lot No. 3 fronting on Chalmers Street and Lot No. 11 fronting on Forest Street, be closed and abandoned (as requested by Mr. Curtis M. Hiatt on behalf of Mr. William R. Thomason and Mrs. Daisy H. Hylton), subject to the voluntary dedi- cation of sufficent right-of-way for the future construction of a turnaround on Branch Street, Council unanimously called for a duly-advertised public hearing to be conducted by Council on this request at Council's forthcoming August 26th regular meeting. Council unanimously placed on first reading, for further and/or final consider- ation at its forthcoming August 26th regular meeting, a proposed ordinance as an amendment to Section 21-3 of the City Code to provide that the penalty imposed by the City on delinquent property taxes shall not exceed the amount of the delinquent tax when such tax is less than ten dollars ($10.00). This amendment, Council was informed, will bring Section 21-3 into conformance with Section 58.1-3916 of the CODE OF VIRGINIA (1950, and as amended). Council unanimously certified to the Virginia State Library that the Council agrees that a grant of $6,089.00 in Federal aid, for the fiscal year 1986-87, may be expended by the Blue Ridge Regional Library in accordance with regulations established by the State Library Board. By letter and in person, Mr. J. Randolph Smith, Jr., Commonwealth's Attorney for the City of Martinsville, informed Council that he has instituted a suit against the State Compensation Board by appealing (to the Circuit Court of the __N____M~__'~.._"_".___""...