CHAPTER 404

An Act to amend and reenact § 1-18.85, as amended, of the Code of

Virginia, relating to the meaning of the word “nopulation”.
[H 202]

_ Approved March 31, 1964

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia )
1. That § 1-13.35, as amended, of the Code of 2 are be amended and.
reenacted as follows:

§ 1-13.85. (a) In order to avoid uncertainty and provide for the
uniform application of the results of the census of nineteen hundred sixty
and prior and subsequent censuses this section shall apply in all cases
except as specified 1 in this section and § 1-13.36.

(b) As used in the Acts of Assembly and id Code of Virginia, the term
population shall mean population as of the last preceding United States
census; provided that as to the census required fox nineteen hundred sixty,
the populations which shall be shown therein shall not apply to any such
act or section-of the Code until June thirty, nineteen hundred sixty-two,
or until the Auditor of Public Accounts shall, after determination of the
finality of the census enumeration, certify such population classifications.
to the governing bodies of the several counties, cities and towns, which-
ever first occurs.

* (c) Provided, however, that whenever any county, city, town or
political subdivision of the State or any combination thereof is identified
by population classification in any statute heretofore or hereafter enacted,
such statute shall continue to apply to such county, city, town, political
subdivision or combination notwithstanding any subsequent change in
population and shall cease to so apply only upon the subsequent enactment
by the General Assembly of a measure in which such intent is clearly
stated. All actions of any such county, city or town or political subdivision
of the State or any combination thereof, and of the officers thereof and of
the clerks of.courts thereof in the operation of their respective offices
either on a fee or salary basis for the calendar year of nineteen hundred
sixty-one, and until March thirty, nineteen hundred sixty-two, under any
such act of Assembly or provision of the Code of Virginia enacted prior
to July one, nineteen hundred sixty, are hereby ratified, validated and con-
firmed. Nothing in this paragraph shall operate to prevent the application
of any such act of Assembly or provision of the Code of Virginia to any
county, city or town or political subdivision of the State or any combina-
tion thereof, falling within the population classification therein prescribed...