Chap. 252. —An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4227 of the Code of oy ie
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Approved March 14, 1924.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
forty-two hundred and twenty-seven of the Code of Virginia be amend-
ed and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 4227. Type in which conditions and restrictions to be
printed; limitation to actions.—No condition in, or endorsement on,
any policy of insurance, nor any restrictive provision thereof, shall he
valid, unless such condition or restrictive provision is printed in type as
large as brevier, or eight point type, or is written in pen and ink or type-
writer, in or on the policy, and no provision in any policy of insurance
limiting the time within which a suit or action may be brought to less
than one year after loss shall be valid. Where it is stipulated in any
policy of insurance, covering property located in this State, that the
entire policy, unless otherwise provided by agreement endorsed thereon
or added thereto, shall be void, the policy shall not be invalidated by a
breach of conditions relating to other insurance; increase of hazard;
employment of mechanics; use or storage of hazardous articles and sub-
stances; extra time operation; cessation of operation, vacancy and un-
occupancy; unless such breach shall exist at the time of the loss or dam-
age, and any condition in such policy relating to chattel mortgage shall
apply only if a chattel mortgage exists at the time of loss or damage and
then only as to such property as shall be covered by a chattel mortgage.