CHAPTER 602

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

[H 733]
Approved March 31, 1960

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

. § 1. The Code of Virginia shall be gradually revised 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. Ex-
perts shall be employed by the Virginia Code Commission to assist in the
project. The Commission may also accept the services of qualified volun-
teers who are willing to serve without pay. Tentative drafts of proposed
revisions shall be printed and circulated among interested persons and their
comments solicited.

§ 2. The revision of Title 15, dealing with counties, cities and towns,
shall be undertaken next.

§ 3. The Commission shall submit to the Governor and the General
Assembly, on or before October one, nineteen hundred sixty-one, a report
of its recommendations, together with suggested legislation necessary to
carry such recommendations into effect.
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 ex-
penses 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, a sum sufficient, esti-
mated at five thousand dollars.