Chap. 286.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3 of Chapter 360 of the
Acts of the General Assembly of 1922, approved March 23, 1922, said chapter,
as heretofore amended, relating to the conduct of business under assumed or
fictitious names or by partners, so as to provide that failure to comply with the
provisions of the said act shall not prevent recovery on any cause of action
heretofore or hereafter arising. [H B 101]

Approved March 30, 1942

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
three of chapter three hundred and sixty of the Acts of the General
Assembly of nineteen hundred and twenty-two, which chapter has been
heretofore amended, be amended and re-enacted, as follows:

Section 3. Any person violating any of the provisions of this act
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be
fined not exceeding one thousand dollars, or imprisonment not more than
one year, or both; provided, however, that the failure of any person, firm
or corporation to comply with the provisions of this act shall not prevent
a recovery by or against such person, firm or corporation, in any of the
courts in this State or any cause of action heretofore or hereafter arising,
but no action shall be maintained in any of the courts in this State by any
such person, firm or corporation or his or its assignee or successor in title
unless and until the certificate required by this act has been filed.

If any section, clause or provision of this act shall be held unconsti-
tutional or invalid, the same shall not affect the validity of this act as a
whole or any part thereof other than the part so held to be unconstitu-
tional or invalid. ,

2. An emergency existing this act shall be in force from its passage.