Chap. 62.—An ACT to amend and reenact Section 6172 of the Code of Virginia, as
amended, authorizing courts to strike certain cases from its docket, and pre-
scribing how such cases may be reinstated. {S 58]

Approved March 3, 1948

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section sixty-one hundred seventy-two of the Code of
Virginia, as amended, be amended and reenacted as follows:

Section 6172. Certain cases struck from docket after two years ;
reinstatement.—Any court in which is pending a case wherein for
more than two years there has been no order or proceeding, except
to continue it, may, in its discretion, order it to be struck from its
docket; and it shall thereby be discontinued. A court making such
order may direct it to be published in such newspaper as it may
designate. The clerk of the court shall notify the parties in interest
it known, or their counsel of record, if living, at his last known ad-
dress, at least fifteen days before the entry of such order of dismissal
so that all parties may have an opportunity to be heard on it. Any
court in which is pending a case wherein for more than five years
there has been no order or proceeding, except to continue it, may,
in its discretion, order it to be struck from its docket; and it sha!l
thereby be discontinued. Any case dismissed under the provisions
of this section may be reinstated, on motion, and after notice to the
parties in interest if known or their counsel of record, within one
year from the date of such order but not after.