Chap. 217.—An ACT to provide for the publication and distribution, under certain
conditions, of certain of the rules and regulations promulgated by certain ad-
ministrative agencies. [H 139]

Approved March 15, 1944

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. Section 1. The Administrative Code of Virginia—An official
State publication known as the “Administrative Code of Virginia” (some-
times called the “Administrative Code” or the “‘code’’) is established,
to be edited by the Director of the Division of Statutory Research and
Drafting (sometimes called the ‘“Director’’), subject to the direction and
control of the Governor. The first edition of the code shall be published
on the first day of January, nineteen hundred forty-five, or as soon there-
after as deemed practicable. Semiannual supplements shall be published
on the first day of March and the first day of September each year, unless
the Governor directs to the contrary. On the first day of March, nineteen
hundred forty-seven, and every two years thereafter, the supplement shall
be cumulative.

Section 2. Contents.—The Administrative Code shall contain such
rules and regulations having the force and effect of law promulgated bv
administrative agencies of the State as are required by law to be published
in the code. New rules and regulations, amendments and repeals of exist-
ing rules and regulations, shall be published in the supplements to the
code. The code and its supplements shall also contain the rules and
regulations of such other administrative agencies as the Commission on
Administrative Agencies or the Governor deems proper to have so
published.

Section 3. The Administrative Code as evidence.—The Administra-
tive Code and the supplements, when published, shall be received as
prima facie evidence for any purpose for which the original rule or regu-
lation could be received, and with like effect.

Section 4. Printing and distribution of the Administrative Code.—
The Director of the Division of Statutory Research and Drafting shall
authorize two thousand copies, or such other number as directed by the
Governor, of the first edition of the code to be printed for disposition as
hereinafter provided. The supplements shall be published in such number
as will enable current owners of the first edition of the code itself to be
supplied with copies.

Section 5. Distribution of Administrative Code.—One copy of the
code shall be distributed to each of the following persons or agencies of
the State: The Governor, the head of each department, each member of
the General Assembly, and every judge, civil justice, civil and police
justice, police justice, trial justice, clerk of court, and attorney for the
Commonwealth ; five copies shall be distributed to the State Library ; five
copies to the Law Library; and five copies to each educational institution
in this State that maintains an accredited law school; ten copies shall be
distributed to the Director of the Division of Statutory Research and
Drafting.
Section 6. Printing, distribution, and disposition of receipts —The
Director of the Division of Purchase and Printing shall, upon authoriza-
tion of the Director of the Division of Statutory Research and Drafting,
cause to have printed the required number of copies of the Code and of the
supplements thereto, and to distribute or sell the same in accordance with
the provisions of this act and section four hundred one of the Code of
Virginia. All moneys realized from the sale and distribution of the code
and the supplements shall be paid into the State Treasury and reported
to the State Comptroller for credit to the general fund of the Common-

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