Chap. 5.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1564 of the Code of Virginia.
[H B 5]
Approved February 10, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
fifteen hundred and sixty-four of the Code of Virginia be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 1564. , Local registrars designated; failure to perform duties;
penalty.—In cities the principal executive officer of the local board of
health shall be the local registrar of vital statistics, and in towns and
magisterial districts the State registrar shall appoint a suitable and
proper person to be the local registrar for such town or district,
or portion of such town or district, as said registrar may designate.

_ Any local registrar who fails or neglects to discharge efficiently the
duties of his office, as laid down in this chapter or who fails to make
prompt and complete returns of births and deaths, as required thereby,
shall be forthwith removed from his office of registrar by the State
registrar, in addition to any further penalties that may be imposed
under other sections of this chapter for failure or neglect to perform
his duty.