Chap. 260.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 108-b of the Code of Virginia,
relating to the registration of voters in certain cities, so as to make the pro-
visions thereof applicable to all counties and towns. [S B 198]

Approved March 27, 1940
1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That

section one hundred and eight-b of the Code of Virginia, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
Section 108-b. In the discretion of the electoral board of any
city having a population of one hundred and sixty-five thousand, or
more, inhabitants, according to the last preceding United States
census, or in the discretion of the electoral board of any county, in
lieu of registering voters in permanent books, the electoral board may
provide for the registration of voters on serially numbered cards,
provided that such card system of registration shall not be adopted
by the electoral board of any county unless and until the same be
approved by the board of supervisors or other governing body of
the county. In the event that such card system of registration is
adopted by the electoral board of any such city, or by the electoral
board of any county, it shall be the duty of the general registrar of
such city, or the registrars of the several voting districts of such
county, as the case may be, including any town voting districts or
precincts in such county, to forthwith proceed to register the names
of all voters of such city, or of the several voting districts of such
county and of any town therein, as the case may be, including those
heretofore registered, on serially numbered cards approved by the
electoral board, which registration shall be as effective as if the
names of such persons had been registered in permanent books, as
heretofore provided by law. Thereafter, all laws applicable to regis-
tration books and the use thereof, shall apply to such registration
cards. This section shall not be construed as authorizing the general
registrar of any such city, or any registrar of any election district of
any county or of any town therein, or the electoral board thereof, to
provide for the destruction of any books, or records, now in existence,
relating to registration of voters.