Chap. 385.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2702 of the Code of Virginia
as amended by an act approved March 16, 1920. (S B 119

Approved March 20, 1924.

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

Section 2702. Certain officers, not to hold more than one office.—
No person holding the office of county treasurer, sheriff, attorney fo.
the Commonwealth, county clerk, commissioner of the revenue, super.
intendent of the poor, county surveyor, or supervisor shall hold any
other office, elective or appointive, at the same time, except that o:
city attorney, notary public, commissioner in chancery, commissioner 0:
accounts, examiner of records, and local registrars of deaths and births
and member of any commission or board appointive by the governor
and a commissioner of the revenue of a county may also be commissione
of the revenue of a town located in said county, also that game warden:
may be employees of the Federal forest reserve, and except also that a
county surveyor may, at the same time, hold the office of oyster inspector,
and if any person shall be elected or appointed to two or more offices
except as herein provided, his qualification in one of them shall be a bar
to his right to qualify in any of the offices above enumerated, and if any
person while holding any of such offices shall be appointed or elected
to any other office, his qualification in such office shall thereby vacate
any of the above offices ke then holds, except as provided as above.