Chap. 291.—An ACT to provide for the appointment of a general registrar for any
county having a density of population of 1,000 or more per square mile, and to
prescribe the duties of such general registrars. [H B 265]

Approved March 30, 1942

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That the
electoral board of any county having a density of population of one
thousand or more per square mile, according to the last preceding United
States census, shall have authority to, and, upon appropriate resolution
by the board of supervisors or other governing body, shall appoint a
general registrar for such county, who shall be in addition to the regis-
trars appointed as provided by law for the several election districts of
such county, and shall be a discreet citizen and resident of said county.

Such general registrar shall be appointed for a term of two years,
beginning on the first day of May next following his appointment, and
shall not hold any elective office at any time during his term of office of
general registrar, but may perform any other duties assigned to him by
such board of supervisors or governing body. The electoral board may
appoint some qualified person already in the employ of the county. He
shall maintain and keep open during the regular office hours of the county
offices, an office or place in such county court house to be provided by
aid governing body where any voter of the county may register, and
1pon any voter so registering before him, he shall promptly certify the
same to the registrar of the voting district of which the registrant is a
resident, and such registrar shall enter the same on his proper registration
book and file such certificate among his records.

Such general registrar shall not receive any fees for his services as
such, but he may be paid a salary for his services, to be fixed by such
poard or governing body. The registrar of the election district of which
the registrant is a resident, for registering a voter on any such certificate,
shall, however, receive the same compensation as if such voter had regis-
tered before him in the first place. The general registrar appointed pur-
suant to this act shall transmit each absent voter’s ballot received by him
to the registrar of the election district in which such absent voter. is
registered. The general registrar shall not open any such ballot, and
when it has been received by the district registrar he shall proceed as
though the ballot had been originally directed to, and received by, him.

2. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.