Chap. 80.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 226 of the Code of Vir-
ginia in relation to primary elections. [S B 48]

Approved March 1, 1926.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion two hundred and twenty-six of the Code of Virginia, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 226. Nominations to which chapter is inapplicable; pro-
cedure in case of certain vacancies.—This chapter shall not apply to
the nominations of presidential electors, nor to the nominations of
candidates to fill vacancies, unless-the candidates for nomination to
hill vacancies are to be voted for on the date set by this chapter for
regular primaries. Whenever, by reason of the death, resignation
or removal of the incumbent, a vacancy shall occur less than sixty
days before the date fixed by section two hundred and twenty-three
for the holding of a primary, but more than thirty days before such
date, the properly constituted party authorities may permit the
hling of declarations of candidacy for nomination in the said primary
to such office. Notice of such vacancy and the right to file declara-
tions of candidacy to fill the same shall be advertised by the party
committee or committees in one of more newspapers having general
circulation in the State, if it be an office filled by election by the
people at large, and in the case of all other offices, in the manner pre-
scribed by the properly constituted party authorities. No such de-
claration of candidacy shall be filed with the said committee or com-
mittees until such advertisement is had, nor within fifteen days prior
to the date for holding the said primary. ,