Chap. 140.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3388 of the Code of Virginia,
as heretofore amended, which provides for clerk’s offices to be open certain
days, records, etc., open to inspection; copies authorized. [H B 121]

Approved March 20, 1930

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty-three hundred and eighty-eight of the Code of Virginia, as here-
tofore amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 3388. The clerk’s office of every court shall be kept open
on every day, except Sunday, fourth of July, thanksgiving day and
Christmas day, during convenient hours, for the transaction of busi-
ness; provided, however, that in cities of the first class the said office
may be closed on memorial day, labor day and armistice day, and the
judge of the circuit court of any county may authorize the clerk to
close the said office on such day or days. The records and papers of
every court shall be open to inspection by any person, and the clerk
shall, when required, furnish copies thereof, except in cases where it is
otherwise specially provided. But no person shall be permitted to use
the clerk’s office for the purpose of making copies of records in such
manner, or to such extent, as shall interfere with the business of the
office, or with the reasonable use of the same by the general public.