Chap. 374.—-An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2702 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, as amended by an act approved March 20, 1924. — [H B 328]

Approved March 24, 1930

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion 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 for
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 of
a city attorney, notary public, commissioner in chancery, commissioner
of accounts, and local registrar of births and deaths, and member of
any commission or board appointive by the governor, and a commis-
sioner of the revenue of a county may also be commissioner of the
revenue of a town located in said county, also that game wardens may
xe employees of the Federal forest reserve, and except also that a
county surveyor may, at the same time, hold the office of oyster in-
spector, 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 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 he then holds, except as provided above.
Provided that an attorney for the Commonwealth may be employed
or appointed by the attorney general as a special prosecutor in prohi-
bition cases.