Chap. 82.—An ACT to provide for the use of United States standard eastern time
in all parts of the State of Virginia. [Ss B 109]

Approved March 2, 1946

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. Section 1. On and after July one, nineteen hundred forty-six,
United States standard eastern time shall be in effect in all parts of the
State of Virginia; provided, however, that nothing in this act shall be so
construed as to be in contravention of federal law, or duly authorized
orders of the Interstate Commerce Commission with respect to the time
zones of the United States and the application of standard time to inter-
state commerce and other matters within such zones.
Section 2. In all laws, statutes, orders, decrees, rules and regula-
tions relating to the time of performance of any act by any officer or
agency of the Commonwealth of Virginia, or any political subdivision
thereof, or relating to the time in which any rights shall accrue or de-
termine, or within which any act shall or shall not be performed by any
person subject to the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth of Virginia and
in all public schools, and in all institutions of the Commonwealth or its
political subdivisions, and in all contracts or choses in action made or to
be performed in the Commonwealth of Virginia, it shall be understood
and intended that the time applicable thereto or referred to or implied
therein shall be United States standard eastern time.