[HISTORY: The Charter set out herein is Acts 1954, c. 562, § 1, approved April 6, 1954, as amended, and amendments are indicated by historical citations following the text of the amended sections. Section 2 of that Act provides that "Chapter 101 of the Acts of Assembly of 1922, approved February 25, 1922, as amended, is repealed, and all other Acts or parts of Acts in conflict with this Charter or anything contained in the orders entered in the Circuit Courts of Carroll and Grayson Counties in the transition proceedings to make the Town of Galax a city in conflict with this Charter is hereby repealed insofar as it affects the provisions of this Charter," and § 3 provides that "an emergency exists and this Act is in force from its passage."]