CHAPTER 625

An Act to provide for the gradual revision of the Code of Virginia under
the direction of the Virginia Code Commission; to provide for a study
and revision of Titles 1, 2, 8, 5, 6 and 7 of the Code of Virginia; and
to appropriate funds to the Virginia Code Commission. rH 804]

Approved March 31, 1964

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

§ 1. The Code of Virginia shall be gradually revised by revising
one or more titles 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. Experts shall be employed by the Virginia Code Commission to
assist in the project. The Commission may also accept the services of
qualified volunteers 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 Commission shall undertake the revision of Titles 1, 2, 3, 5,
6 and 7, and submit to the Governor and the General Assembly, on or
before October one, nineteen hundred sixty-five, a report of its recommen-
dations, together with suggested legislation necessary to carry such rec-
ommendations into effect.

§ 3. 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
expenses 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.