Chap. 18.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 291 of the Code of Virginia,
as heretofore amended, relating to disabilities to hold office and exceptions
thereto. [S B 3]

Approved February 17, 1936

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion two hundred and ninety-one of the Code of Virginia, as hereto-
fore amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 291. The preceding section shall not be construed to pre-
vent members of Congress from acting as justices of the peace, visitors
of the University of Virginia and Virginia Military Institute, or from
holding offices in the militia; or to exclude from offices under the
State on account of any pension from the United States, a person to
whom such pension has been granted in consequence of an injury or
disability received in war, or to exclude from such office or post officers
or soldiers on account of the recompence they may receive from the
United States when called out in actual duty ; or be construed to prevent
United States commissioners or United States census enumerators,
supervisor, or the clerks under the supervisor of the United States
census, or fourth-class or third-class postmasters, or United States
caretakers of the National Guard of Virginia, from acting as notaries,
school trustees, justices of the peace, or supervisors, or from holding
any district office under the government of any county, or as council-
man of any town or city in this State; or to prevent any United States
rural mail carrier, or star route mail carrier from being appointed and
acting as notary public or holding any county or district office or to
prevent any civilian employee of the United States government from
being appointed and acting as notary public; or to prevent any United
States commissioners from holding office of commissioner in chancery,
bail commissioner, jury commissioner, commissioner of accounts, or
assistant commissioner of accounts; or to prevent any person holding
office or post of profit, trust or emolument, civil, legislative, executive
or judicial under the government of the United States, from being a
member of the militia, or holding office therein; or from being a direc-
tor in a State institution; or be construed to prevent foremen, quarter-
men, leading men, artisans, clerks or laborers, employed in any navy
yard or naval reservation in Virginia, from holding any office under
the government of any city, town or county in this Commonwealth, or
to prevent any United States government clerk from holding any of-
fice under the government of any town or city, or to prevent any
United States government employee, otherwise eligible from holding
any office under the government of any county in this State having
a population in excess of three hundred inhabitants per square mile
according to the last United States census, or to prevent any person
holding an office under the United States government from holding a
position under the management and control of the State Board of
Health; or to prevent any State federal director for this State in the
employment service of the United States Department of Labor from
holding the office of commissioner of labor of this State, or to prevent
clerks and employees of the Federal government engaged in the depart-
mental service in Washington from acting as school trustees.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its pas-
sage.