Chap. 142.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Chapter 306 of the Acts of Assembly
of 1944, approved March 29, 1944, relating to appointment of general registrars
in certain counties and duties thereof. [H B

Approved March 9, 1946

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That chapter three hundred six of the Acts of Assembly of nine-
teen hundred forty-four, approved March twenty-nine, nineteen hundred
forty-four, be amended and re-enacted, as follows:

1. That electoral board of any county adjoining a county having
a density of population of one thousand or more a square mile shall have
authority to, and, upon appropriate resolution by the governing body of
the county, shall appoint a general registrar for the county, who shall be
in addition to the registrars appointed as provided by law for the several
election districts of the county, and shall be a discreet citizen and resident
thereof.

The 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
the 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 the county court house to be provided by the governing body
where any voter of the county may register, and upon any voter so
registering before him, he shall promptly certify same to the registrar of
the voting district of which the registrant is a resident, and the registrar
shall enter same on his proper registration book and file the certificate
among his records.

Any local registrar who registers any voter shall record such voter’s
name upon his registration book and promptly notify the general regis-
trar who shall thereupon record such name upon the appropriate regis-
tration book.

The local registrar shall receive for such additional service an
amount to be fixed by the governing body.

The 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 the gov-
erning body. The registrar of the election district of which the regis-
trant is a resident, for registering a voter on any such certificate, shall
receive the same compensation as if the voter had registered before him
in the first place. The general registrar appointed pursuant to this act
shall transmit each absent voter’s ballot received by him to the registrar
of the election district in which the absent voter is registered. The gen-
eral 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.