Chap. 486.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 98 of the Code of Virginia.
in relation to registration of voters. [S B 217]

Approved March 26, 1928

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

Section 98. When voters registered; duties of registrars; their
pay.—Each registrar in the cities and towns of this State shall an-
nually, on the third Tuesday in May, at his voting place, proceed to
register the names of all qualified voters within his election district
not previously registered in the said district, in accordance with the
provisions of this chapter, who shall apply to be registered, commenc-
ing at sunrise and closing at sunset, and shall complete such registra-
tion on the third Tuesday in May. Thirty days previous to the No-
vember elections each registrar in this State shall sit one day for the
purpose of amending and correcting the list, at which time any quali-
fied voter applying, and not previously registered, may be added. He
shall give notice of the time and place of all registrations for at least
ten days before each sitting, by posting written or printed notices
thereof at ten or more public places in his election district. The regis-
trar shall, at any time previous to the regular days of registration,
register any voter entitled to vote at the next succeeding election who
may apply to him to be registered; and he shall receive as compensa-
tion ten cents for the name so registered on days other than the regu-
lar days of registration, the same to be paid out of the county or city
treasury. It shall be the duty of the registrar within five davs after
each sitting, to have posted at three or more public places in his elec-
tion district written or printed lists of the names of all persons so ad-
mitted to registration, and at the same time to also certify to the clerk
of the circuit court of the county, or the corporation court of the city
a true copy of such list, and to have like list posted on the day of the
election at the place of voting in his election district.

And it shall be the duty of the said clerk, upon receipt of such list,
to forthwith record in a suitable book, to be kept in his office for
that purpose, the names of the registered voters so certified, in alpha-
betical arrangement.

For making and certifying such lists the registrars shall be allowed
three cents for each ten words, counting initials as words, and the
clerks for recording the same shall be allowed two cents for each ten
words, counting initials as words, the same to be paid out of the treas-
ury of the county, city or town.

Whenever the name of any registered voter shall have been
changed, either by marriage or order of court, the registrar in whose
district such voter is registered, shall upon the written request of such
voter enter the change upon the registration books, and certify the
same to the clerk of the circuit court of the county or the corporation
court of the city, as the case may be, who shall record the change upon
the books kept in his office.