CHAPTER 147

An Act to amend and reenact § 80-5, as amended, of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to continuance or extension of time for filing plead-
ings where party or attorney is an officer or member of the General
Assembly so as to extend the provisions thereof to employees of the
General Assembly and the Division of Statutory Research and

Drafting. 8 220)

Approved March 8, 1960

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 30-5, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, be amended and re-
enacted as follows:
§ 80-5. Any party to an action or proceeding in any court, including
the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, commission or other tribunal
having judicial or quasi judicial powers or jurisdiction, who is an officer,
employee or member of the General Assembly, or employee of the Division
of Statutory Research and Drafting, or who has, prior to or during the
session of the General Assembly, employed or retained to represent him
in such action or proceeding an attorney who is an officer, employee or
member of the General Assembly, or employee of the Division of Statutory
Research and Drafting, shall be entitled to a continuance as a matter of
right during the period beginning thirty days prior to the commencement
of the session and ending thirty days after the adjournment thereof ; and
the period required by any statute or rule for the filing of any pleading or
the performance of any act relating thereto shall be extended until thirty
days after any such session. The failure of any court, commission or
other tribunal to allow such continuance when requested so to do or the re-
quiring of such filing or act during the period hereinabove specified shall
constitute reversible error; provided that this section shall not prevent
the granting of temporary injunctive relief, or the dissolution or exten-
sion of a temporary injunction, but the right to such relief shall remain
in the sound discretion of the court or other such tribunal.

2. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.