CHAPTER 5

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered
2$-13.1 to provide for the election in nineteen hundred sixty-five of
members of the Senate of Virginia for terms expiring in January
nineteen hundred sixty-eight; and to provide how members of the
Senate of Virginia shall be elected for terms commencing in January
nineteen hundred sixty-eight and thereafter. 3 6

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Approved December 12, 1964

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding a section numbered
24-13.1 as follows:

§ 24-13.1 (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of § 24-13 of this Code,
if the Attorney General of Virginia shall file with the Clerk of the Virginia
State Senate a copy of an order of the Supreme Court of the United States,
or other federal court, finally adjudicating that the terms of the incumbent
members of the Senate of the General Assembly of Virginia terminate on
or before the convening in January, nineteen hundred sixty-six, of the regu-
lar session of the General Assembly, the Governor shall issue a writ calling
a special election to elect the several members of the State Senate. The
writ shall set forth the date of the election. All other provisions of law
relating to the conduct of special elections shall apply. At such special elec-
tion, the candidates for election to the several State Senatorial Districts, as
such Districts are then legally constituted, receiving the highest number
of votes, respectively, shall be declared elected, and shall, upon qualifying
for office, constitute the Senate of the General Assembly. Provided, how-
ever, if the Attorney General of Virginia shall file the copy of the order
hereinabove-mentioned with the Clerk of the Virginia State Senate on or
before the fifteenth day of March, nineteen hundred sixty-five, the Governor,
in his discretion, is authorized to issue the writ calling an election to elect
the several members of the State Senate on the date of the general election
in November, nineteen hundred sixty-five. In such event, except as herein
modified, all other provisions of law providing for primaries or conventions
to nominate persons as candidates, and for the election of members of the
State Senate, shall apply. The persons so elected and qualifying shall hold
office for a term of two years commencing on the second Wednesday in
January succeeding their election and ending upon the convening in Jan-
uary, nineteen hundred sixty-eight, of the regular session of the General
Assembly.

(b) Successors to the members of the State Senate elected for terms
expiring in January, nineteen hundred sixty-eight, shall be elected in
November, nineteen hundred sixty-seven, pursuant to the provisions of
§ 24-13 of the Code.

nee This act shall expire as of January ten, nineteen hundred sixty-
eight.