CHAPTER 90

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 2-29 of the Code of 1950, relat-
ing to certain United States officers and employees holding
certain State offices.

[ H 73 ]

Approved March 3, 1950

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 2-29 of the Code of 1950 be amended and reenacted
as follows:

§ 2-29. Further exceptions.—Section 2-27 shall not be
construed:

(1) To prevent members of Congress from acting as jus-
tices of the peace, visitors of the University of Virginia or the
Virginia Military Institute, or from holding offices in the
militia ;

(2) To exclude from offices under the State on account of
any pension from the United States a person to whom such
pension has been granted in consequence of an injury or dis-
ability received in war;

(3) To exclude from such office or post officers or soldiers
on account of the recompense they may receive from the United
States when called out in actual duty;

(4) To prevent United States commissioners or United
States census enumerators, supervisors, or the clerks under the
supervisor of the United States census, or fourth-class or third-
class postmasters, or United States caretakers of the National
Guard of Virginia, from acting as notaries, school trustees,
justices of the peace, or supervisors, or from holding any dis-
trict office under the government of any county, or the office of
councilman of any town or city in this State;

(5) To prevent any United States rural mail carrier, or
star route mail carrier from being appointed and acting as
notary public or holding any county or district office ;

(6) To prevent any civilian employee of the United States
government from being appointed and acting as notary public;

(7) To prevent any United States commissioners or ref-
erees in bankruptcy from holding the office of commissioner in
chancery, bail commissioner, jury commissioner, commissioner
oi accounts, assistant commissioner of accounts;

(8) To prevent any person holding office or a post of profit,
trust or emolument, civil, legislative, executive or judicial, under
the government of the United States, from being a member of
he militia, or holding office therein, or from being a director in

State institution ;
(9) To prevent foremen, quartermen, leading men, artisans,
clerks or laborers, employed in any navy yard or naval reserva-
tion in Virginia, from holding any office under the government
of any city, town or county in this Commonwealth;

(10) To prevent any United States government clerk from
holding any office under the government of any town or city;

(11) To prevent any United States government employee,
otherwise eligible, from holding any office under the govern-
ment of any county in this State having a population in excess
of three hundred inhabitants per square mile, * or of any city or
county adjoining any county having a population in excess of
two thousand inhabitants per square mile.

(12) To prevent any person holding an office under the
United States government from holding a position under the
management and control of the State Board of Health;

(13) To prevent any State federal director for this State
in the employment service of the United States Department of
ered from holding the office of Commissioner of Labor of this

tate; or

(14) To prevent clerks and employees of the Federal gov-
ernment engaged in the departmental service in Washington
from acting as school trustees.