CyChap. 178.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Chapter 226 of the Acts of 1936,
approved March 23, 1936, relating to the appointment of general registrars for
cities of the second class, so as to provide for general registrars for cities of
the first class having less than a certain population. [H B 235]

Approved March 11, 1942

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That chapter
two hundred and twenty-six of the Acts of nineteen hundred and thirty-
six, approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, be
amended and re-enacted, as follows:

Section 1. The electoral board of any city of the second class, or of
any city of the first class having a population of less than fifteen thousand
according to the United States census latest preceding, may at any time,
in its discretion, appoint a general registrar for such city, who shall be a
discreet citizen and a resident of the city for which he is appointed, and
such registrar shall not hold any office, by general election, during his
term. Said registrar shall hold office for four years from the first day of
May next following his appointment, and until his successor is duly
qualified, except as hereinafter provided.

Section 2. Such general registrar shall keep separate registration
books for each election district in said city and shall perform all duties
now required by law to be performed by the registrars of the election dis-
tricts of said city. It shall be the duty of the general registrar to maintain
in the city for which he is appointed, an office or place wherein all persons
qualified to vote in such city may be registered.

Section 3. The council of the city shall pay such general registrar
for performing the duties required of him, either the fees allowed to
registrars by existing law, or a monthly salary, the yearly aggregate of
which shall not be less than the amount such registrars would have re-
ceived from fees allowed by existing law.

Section 4. The appointment of such general registrar shall auto-
matically abolish the office of registrar in each election district in such
city as existing at the time of such appointment, and the registrar for
each such district shall deliver to said general registrar all books, papers
and documents pertaining to his office.

Section 5. If the electoral board shall appoint a general registrar
under the provisions of this act, it may, at the expiration of the term of
office of such general registrar, abolish such office by declining to appoint
a successor, and giving notice of such intention to the incumbent, if any,
in which event the provisions of this act shall cease to be operative in such
city, and the appointment of registrars and the registration of voters in
such city shall thereafter conform in all respects to the general law, other
than this act, then in force.