Chap. 203.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section two thousand seven hun-
dred and two of the Code of Virginia. [H B 243]

Approved March 16, 1920.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
two thousand seven hundred and two of the Code of Virginia be
amended and re-enacted to read as follows:

Sec. 2702. Certain officers, not to hold more than one office.—No
person holding the office of county treasurer, sheriff, attorney for the
Commonwealth, county clerk, commissioner of the revenue, superin-
tendent of the poor, county surveyor, or supervisor shall hold any other
office, elective or appointive, at the same time, except that of city
attorney, notary public, commissioner in chancery, commissioner of
accounts, examiners of records and local registrars of deaths and
births, and if any person shall be elected or appointed to two or more
offices except as herein provided, his qualification in one of them shall
be a bar to his right to qualify in any of the offices above enumerated,
and if any person while holding any of such offices shall be appointed
or elected to any other office, his qualification in such office shall
thereby vacate any of the above offices he then holds, except as pro-
vided as above.

In view of the fact that many of the clerks of the courts are com-
missioners in chancery and commissioners of accounts, an emergency
is declared to exist and this act shall be in force from its passage.