An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
Volume 1968 Law 99
Volume | 1884es |
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Law Number | 14 |
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Chap. 14.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 10 of an act
entitled an act to provide for a general registration of voters, approved
April 12, 1870, chapter 46, sections 1 and 10, pages 55 and 57, Acts
1869-70, and which are sections 2 and 8 of chapter 7 of Code of 1878,
and section 24 of an act entitled an act to provide for a general elec-
tion, approved May 11, 1870, chapter 76, section 24, page 82, Acts of
1869-70, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact
section 24 of the act approved May 11, 1870, entitled an act to provide
for a general election, approved March 20th, 1878, chapter 200, section
1, page 185, Acts 1872-8, and which is section 8 of chapter 8, Code of
1878, and section 40 of an act entitled an act to provide for a general
election, approved May 11, 1870, chapter 76, section 40, page 88, Acts
1869-70, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact
sections 89, 40, and 58 of an act entitled an act to provide for a gene-
ral eleotion, approved May 11, 1870, as amended and re-enacted by an
act approved July 11, 1870, chapter 279, section 1, page 870, Acts
1870-1, and which is section 24 of chapter 8, Code of 1878, and to
make valid all registrations made and elections held since the act of
February 14th, 1884, became ip force.
Approved August 25, 1884.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
sections one and ten of an act entitled an act to provide for
a general registration of voters, approved April twelfth,
eighteen hundred and seventy, chapter forty-six, sections
one and ten, pages fifty-five and fifty-seven, Acts eighteen
hundred and sixty-nine-seventy, and which are sections two
and three of chapter seven of Code of eighteen hundred and
seventy-three, and section twenty-four of an act entitled an
act to provide for a general election, approved May eleventh,
eighteen hundred and seventy, chapter seventy-six, section
twenty-four, page eighty-two, Acts eighteen hundred and six-
ty-nine-seventy, as amended by an act entitled an act to
amend and re-enact section twenty-four of the act approved
May eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy, entitled an act
to provide for a general election, approved March twentieth,
eighteen hundred and seventy-three, chapter two hundred,
section one, page one hundred and eighty-five, Acts eighteen
hundred and seventy-two-three, and which is section eight
of chapter eight, Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three,
and section forty of an act entitled an act to provide for a
general election, approved May eleventh, eighteen hundred
and seventy, chapter seventy-six, section forty, page eighty-
eight, Acts eighteen hundred and sixty-nine-seventy, as
amended by an aet entitled an act to amend and re-enact
sections thirty-nine, forty, and fifty-eight of an act entitled
an act to provide for a general election, approved May
eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy, as amended and re-
enacted by an act approved July eleventh, eighteen hundred
and seventy, chapter two hundred and seventy-nine, section
one, page three hundred and seventy, Acts eighteen hundred
and seventy—seventy-one, and which is section twenty-four
of chapter eight Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
CHAPTER VII.
§2. The judges of the county and hustings courts of each
county, city, and town of this commonwealth shall, as soon
as possible after the passage of this act, proceed to fill vacan-
cies in the office of registrar wherever no appointments were
made at the January term, eighteen hundred and eighty-four,
of their respective courts, as provided by the law then in
force, or when for any other reason the office of registrar is
vacant, except that appointments of registrars made by the
judges of the county and hustings courts at or since the Jan-
uary term, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, of their re-
spective courts, are hereby declared valid. The persons so
appointed shall continue to hold office until January thirty,
eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and at the January terms,
eighteen hundred and eighty-five, of their respective courts,
and every second year thereafter, the judge of the county and
hustings eourts of each county, city, and town of this com-
monwealth shall appoint a registrar for each voting place of
their respective counties, cities, and towns, who shall be a
discreet citizen and resident of the magisterial district or
ward, and of the election precinct in which is the voting place
for which he is appointed: provided, however, that in every
district and ward containing over one thousand voters the
said judge shall appoint one registrar for every thousand
voters, and one for every fractional part of a thousand above
five hundred, and there shall be at least as many voting places
in each ward or district as registrars for said ward or district.
§3. When any vacancy exists or occurs in the office of
registrar, the judge of the county or hustings court shall
have the power at any time to fill the same; and if, from any
cause, the registrar shall be unable to discharge the duties of
his office, the said judge shall have power to appoint one pro
tempore in his stead.
CHAPTER VIII.
§8. It shall be the duty of the judges of the county and
hustings courts of each county, city, and town of this com-
monwealth, as soon as possible after the passage of this act,
to proceed to fill vacancies in the office of judge of elections
where no appointments were made at the April term, eigh-
teen hundred and eighty-four, of their respective courts as
provided by section two, chapter seven, Code of eighteen
undred and seventy-three, or where for any other reason the
office of judge of elections is vacant, except that appoint-
ments of judges of election made by the judges of the county
and hustings courts at or since the April term, eighteen hun-
dred and eighty-four, of their respective courts are hereby
declared valid. The judges of the said courts shall hereafter
annually at the April terms of their courts, select and appoint
three competent male citizens from each voting district in
their respective counties and corporations for each voting
place therein, who, when so selected and appointed, shall con-
stitute the judges of elections for all elections to be held in their
respective districts for the period of one year, dating from their
appointment, except the first appointed under this act, whoshall
continue to discharge the duties for which they are appointed
until the April terms, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, of
their respective county and corporation courts. The said
judges shall have the power to appoint two clerks for each
place of voting at such elections, and whenever it is practi-
cable to do so, the citizens so selected and appointed as judges
of elections shall be chosen for each voting place from amongst
persons known to belong to different political parties, and
among these at least one judge of election for each election
precinct who can read and write; but no election shall be
deemed to be invalid where the citizens appointed as judges
shall not belong to any or to different political parties. Should
any judge of election fail to attend at any place of voting for
one hour after the time prescribed by law for opening the
polls at such election, it shall be lawful for the judge or judges
in attendance to select trom among the bystanders one or
more persons possessing the qualifications of judges of elec-
tions, who shall act as judge or judges of such election, and
who shall have the powers and authority of judges appointed
by the proper court. Should all judges appointed for any
p ace of voting fail to attend at the place of voting for one
our after the time prescribed by law for opening the polls
at such election, it shall be the duty of any justice of the
peace of the district in which the election is held, who shall
e applied to for that purpose, or the mayor, if the election
is in any election district in a town or city, to appoint three
judges of election for such election district, who shall possess
the same qualifications and have the same power as jud es
appointed by the proper court. Should no judge of election
be appointed for any county, city, or place of voting therein,
or if appointed, they neglect or refuse to act for one hour
after the time prescribed by law for opening the polls at such
election, it shall be lawful for any three competent voters of
the district who may be present and willing to act, upon
taking the oath prescribed for judges of elections, to proceed
to hold, conduct, and certify the election in the manner pro-
vided in this act; and for that purpose, shall have all the
powera and authority of judges appointed by the proper
courts: provided that the judges of the county and corpora-
tion courts, in term or vacation, shall have power to fill vacan-
cies in such appointments in their respective counties and
corporations whenever necessary to do so: provided however,
that every judge of election, heretofore appointed by the cor-
poration or county courts, in accordance with the provisions
of the law in force prior to February fourteen, eighteen hun-
dred and eighty-four, shall continue to perform the duties of
his office until the expiration of the term for which he fs
appointed. : .
t 24. It shall be the duty of the county and corporation
courts, in the order appointing the judges of election for their
respective counties and corporations, to designate five of the
persons so appointed, to act as commissioners, three of which
said commissioners, when so designated, shall constitute a
board (of which the clerk of the court so appointing shall ex-
officio be clerk), whose duty it shall be to meet at the clerk’s
office of the county or corporation for which they are
appointed, on the second day after any election held therein
(Sunday excepted), and proceed to open the several returns
which shall have been made at that office ; and the said com-
missioners shall determine the persons who have received the
greatest number of votes in the county or corporation for the
several offices voted for in such election. Such determination
shall be reduced to writing and signed by said commissioners,
and attested by the clerk, and shall be annexed to the abstract
of votes given for such officers respectively, hereinafter pro-
vided for in the twen+y-sixth section of this chapter. If from
any cause the number of commissioners in attendance at the
time and place for opening returns be less than three, it shall
be lawful for the commissioner or commissioners in attend-
ance toselect from among the voters of the county or corpora-
tion (as the case may be) one or more persons having the qual-
ifications of judges of election, who shall act as commissioner
or commissioners. Should all the commissioners appointed for
any county or corporation fail to attend at the time and place
for opening returns, it shall be lawful for any justice of the
peace of the county, or the mayor if the failure occur in a city
or town, to appoint from among the voters of the county or
corporation (as the case may be) three persons having the
qualifications of judges of election, who shall act as commis-
sioners: provided that the judges of the county and corpora-
tion courts, in ‘term or vacation, shall have power to fill
vacancies in such appointments in their respective counties
and corporations whonever necessary to do so. Any person
appointed under this section to fill a vacancy in the board of
commissioners, shall, before entering upon the discharge of
his duties as commissioner, take an oath before some one
authorized to administer oaths, to faithfully discharge his
duties as commissioner, and when so sworn shall have all the
ower and authority, and be subject to all the penalties, of a
judge of election appointed for that purpose by the proper
court. The fact of the appointment being made, and the oath
taken, shall be noted by the clerk at the foot of the abstract
of votes provided for in the said twenty-sixth section.
2. Be it further enacted, That the sections herein re-enacted,
shall have the same force and effect as if the act of February
fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, repealing them
had never been enacted, and any election held, or registration
made, between the fourteenth of February, eighteen hundred
and eighty-four, and the passage of this act, shall in no way
be regarded as invalid on account of the repeal of said sections,
or on account of the passage of said act of February four-
teenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, or any action had
thereunder. |
3. This act shall be in force from its passage.