CHAPTER 286

An Act to provide for the further gradual revision of the Code of Virginia
under the direction of the Virginia Code Commission; and to appro-
priate to the Virginia Code Commission certain funds to carry out
the project.

(H 458]

Approved March 9, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. §1. The revision of the Code of Virginia shall be continued by
revising one title at a time. In revising each title, all other sections of
the Code relating to the same subject matter shall be revised to the extent
necessary. Experts shall be employed by the Virginia Code Commission
to assist in the project. The Commission may also accept the services of
qualified volunteers who are willing to serve without pay. Tentative drafts
of proposed revisions shall be printed and circulated among interested
persons and their comments solicited.

. The revision of Title 18, dealing with crimes and offenses gen-
erally, shall be undertaken.

§ 3. The Commission shall submit to the Governor and the General
Assembly, on or before October one, nineteen hundred fifty-seven, a report
of its recommendations, together with suggested legislation necessary to
carry such recommendations into effect.
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_§ 4. The Commission is authorized to expend funds made available
to it by this Act for the purpose of paying the expenses of members of the
Commission, and the expenses of members of committees selected by it,
when engaged in the performance of duties imposed by this Act, as well
as the salaries and expenses of persons employed by the Commission to
work on the revision of the titles of the Code herein mentioned, and other
expenses of the Commission properly chargeable to this project. _

2. There is hereby appropriated to the Virginia Code Commission, to be
used solely for the purposes hereinabove set forth, the sum of ten
thousand dollars, or so much thereof as shall be necessary.