CHAPTER 459

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a section num-
bered 54-50.1, providing that an attorney failing for two successive
years to pay his Virginia State Bar fees shall forfeit his license to
practice law; and to provide for restoration of such license.

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding thereto a section
numbered 54-50.1 as follows:

_ § 54-50.1. Any attorney at law licensed to practice in this State who
fails for two successive years to pay the annual fees provided for by
§ 54-50, shall thereby forfeit his license to practice law in this State.

The Secretary of the Virginia State Bar shall, on or before January
thirty-one of each year, notify every attorney whose fees for the two
preceding years have not been paid; such notice shall be deemed to have
been given if such notice is deposited by registered or certified mail
addressed to such attorney at his address as shown on such Secretary’s
official records; and in the event that payment thereof is not received
by him within six months from the date of such notice, he shall remove
the name of such attorney from his list of persons qualified to practice
law in Virginia, and shall notify the clerk of the Supreme Court of Appeals
of Virginia that the name of such attorney has been removed; and such
name shall thereafter be restored only upon application of such person to
the Secretary accompanied by a sum equal to the aggregate of all fees which
are due, plus a penalty in the amount of one hundred dollars; and, upon
receipt of the same, the Secretary shall forthwith restore the name of
such person to his list of persons qualified to practice law in Virginia
and shall forthwith notify the clerk of the Supreme Court of Appeals of
Virginia that such name has been restored.