CHAPTER 268

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered
8-211.1, relating to the exclusion of witnesses. [H 397]

Approved March 31, 1966

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding a section numbered
8-211.1, as follows:

§ 8211.1. In the trial of every case, civil or criminal, the court,
whether a court of record or a court not of record, may upon its own
motion and shall upon the motion of any party, require the exclusion
of every witness whose presence is not necessary to the proceedings;
provided, that in every civil case, each named party who is an individual
and one officer or agent of each party which is a corporation or association
shall be exempt from the rule of this section as a matter of right; and
provided, further, that in every criminal case, each defendant who is an
individual and one officer or agent of each defendant which is a corporation
a “<vae shall be exempt from the rule of this section as a matter
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