Chap. 234.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6 of Chapter 160 of the Acts
of Assembly of 1944, approved March 8, 1944, which chapter relates to the
regulation of certain administrative agencies and which section relates to the
notice to be given as to hearings upon proposals on the part of agencies in-
cluded within the provisions of the act; and to repeal. Chapter 218 of the Acts
of Assembly of 1944, approved March 15, 1944, relating to the same matter.

(S B 182]
Approved March 25, 1946

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

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

Section 6. Notice of proposal, change, amendment, or repeal of
rule or rules—(a) No rule, change, amendment, or repeal thereof pro-
posed for effect after the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred
forty-four, by any agency, may be submitted to nor shall be considered
or approved by the Commission, unless and until the proposed rule,
change, amendment or repeal has been published in full by and at the
expense of the agency proposing same at least one time in at least one
newspaper of general circulation in this State and a copy has been placed
in the office of the Division of Statutory Research and Drafting, where
it shall be subject to inspection during office hours on business days
by any member of the public and such publication and filing must be
not less than fifteen nor more than thirty days prior to the session of
the agency at which the public hearing on the proposal is to be had.

(b) Thereafter, when the proposed rule is submitted to the Com-
mission for its action a reasonable opportunity on the part of those ap-
pearing to be interested to be heard shall be afforded in such manner
as the Commission prescribes by general or specific direction.

(c) At the hearing before the Commission the agency must prove
to the satisfaction of the Commission (1) that the proposal and notice
of time and place of hearing thereon were published and filed as re-
quired by this section, (2) that the hearing was held in accordance
with such notice, (3) what action was taken upon the proposal at or
after such hearing, and (4) what representative or representatives of
the agency was or were authorized at such hearing to propose before
the Commission cognate changes in the rule or rules as adopted and as
presented to the Commission, if it be proposed to offer any cognate
change for consideration of and action by the Commission.

2. Chapter two hundred eighteen of the Acts of Assembly of nine-
teen hundred forty-four, approved March fifteen, nineteen hundred
forty-four, relating to the publication of certain notices by or on behalf
of certain administrative agencies through medium of the “Virginia
State Register’, is repealed.