Chap. 417.—An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section
numbered 5-a, to define the word “population”. [S B 279]

Approved April 4, 1942

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That the
Code of Virginia be amended by adding thereto a new section numbered
five-a as follows:

Section 5-a. Population—The word “population”, whenever used
in any act of the General Assembly with reference to any county, city,
or town, unless the context clearly indicates some other meaning, shall
be construed to mean the population of such county, city, or town as
shown by the United States census latest preceding the time at which
any provision dependent upon population is being applied, or the time
as of which it is being construed, to the end that there will be such flexi-
bility as will constitute the word of general and variable, instead of special
and invariable, significance.