Chap. 306.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 81 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, prescribing how vacancies in the General Assembly shall be ae '
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Approved March 28, 1938

I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion eighty-one of the Code of Virginia be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

Section 81. How vacancies in the General Assembly filled —When
a vacancy occurs in the membership of the General Assembly during
the recess of the General Assembly, or when a member-elect to the
next General Assembly shall die, resign or be legally incapacitated to
hold such office prior to its meeting, a writ of election to fill such
vacancy shall be issued by the Governor, and when such vacancy hap-
pens during the session of the General Assembly of which the person
so dying or resigning or whose office is otherwise vacated is a member,
the writ shall be issued by the Speaker of the House of Delegates, or
by the President of the Senate, as the case may be. ,

Such writ shall be directed to the sheriff of the county or sergeant
of the corporation for which the election is to be held, or to the sheriffs
and sergeants of the respective counties and cities composing the
election district, or districts, for the election of senators or delegates,
when the election is for such districts, but whenever any district is
changed after the election of a delegate or senator, and the delegate
or senator shall die, resign, or his office be otherwise vacated, the
election to fill the vacancy shall be held in the district as constituted
when the said delegate or senator was elected.