CHAPTER 615

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered
24-850.1, relating to primary elections so as to authorize a Party
Committee to direct that a special primary may be held whenever a
person who has filed for nomination as a candidate of the Party dies
after the last date candidates may file and authorizing a nomination

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for such office (H 788}

Approved March 31, 1964

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding a new section
numbered 24-350.1 as follows:

§ 24-350.1. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Title, when-
ever during the period between the final date a person may file as a can-
didate for nomination for any office under the provisions of this chapter
and the date on which the primary is to be held, any person who has filed
as a candidate for nomination for such office shall die, the Party Com-
mittee that ordered the holding of the primary in which such person was
a candidate, shall have the power to order the State Board of Elections
to call off and cancel the primary for said office, and any such primary
red for such office after such action by such Party Committee shall be
void.

- The Secretary of the State Board of Elections upon receiving such
order shall promptly notify the Secretary of each local electoral board of
the action of the Party Committee.

Whenever a primary election is cancelled under the foregoing cir-
cumstances, the Party Committee may call for a special primary on such
date as will allow candidates to be nominated and certified for the ensuing
general election, not later than ten days after such special primary. If a
special primary is so set, the Party Committee shall require candidates to
file declarations of candidacy with the party chairman at least ten days
in advance of the special primary; the party chairman shall notify the
State Board of Elections and such other officials as are requisite in order
to have ballots printed and distributed to the polls on the date set for the
special primary. Insofar as not in conflict with this section, the other pro-
visions of this chapter shall apply to special primaries and the provisions
of chapter 9 concerning special elections, shall, respectively, apply mutatis
mutandis to special primaries.