Chap. 71.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act
to reorganize the administration of the State government in order to secure
better service, and through co-ordination and consolidation, to promote economy
and efficiency in the work of the government; to create and establish or con-
tinue certain departments, divisions, offices, officers and other agencies, and
to prescribe their powers and duties; to abolish certain offices, boards, com-
missions and other agencies, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts incon-
sistent with this act to the extent of such inconsistency, approved April 18.
1927. [fH B 64]

Approved February 27, 1930

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
three of an act entitled an act to reorganize the administration of the
State government in order to secure better service, and through co-
ordination and consolidation, to promote economy and efficiency in the
work of the government; to create and establish or continue certain
departments, divisions, offices, officers, and other agencies, and to pre-
scribe their powers and duties; to abolish certain offices, boards, com-
missions and other agencies, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts
inconsistent with this act to the extent of such inconsistency, approved
April eighteenth, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 3. Division of records.—The secretary of the Common-
wealth, who shall be ex-officio secretary to the governor, shall be ir
direct charge of the division of records. All the powers conferred
and all the duties imposed by the Constitution and by law upon the
secretary of the Commonwealth shall continue to be exercised or per-
formed by him, except as in this section provided.

All the powers conferred and all the duties imposed upon the sec.
retary of the Commonwealth by the laws in relation to the sale o
distribution, or both the sale and distribution, of State publications
shall be hereafter exercised or performed by the director of the divisior
of purchase and printing, and the receipts from the sale of such Stat
publications shall be reported to the comptroller and credited to th
general appropriation for public printing or Virginia reports. A rea
sonable discount may be allowed dealers on sales of State publications.

All the powers conferred and all the duties imposed upon the sec-
retary of the Commonwealth by the laws in relation to the secretarv of
the Commonwealth as the statutory agent of foreign corporations
(as well as the statutory agent of such foreign promoters as are men-
tioned in chapter five hundred and twenty-nine of the acts of assembly of
nineteen hundred and twenty-eight) for the service of process against or
notice to such foreign corporations and such foreign promoters, shall
remain unaffected and unimpaired; and the secretary of the Common-
wealth shall continue to be the statutory agent of such foreign cor-
porations and such foreign promoters; but all other powers conferred
and all other duties imposed upon the secretary of the Commonwealth
by the statutes in relation to corporations, both foreign and domestic,
are hereby conferred or imposed upon and shall be exercised or per-
formed by the State corporation commission; and wherever the words
“secretary of the Commonwealth,” or other words denoting that officer,
appear in any such statutes, whether such words relate to the powers
and duties of such officer or are used in connection with the imposi-
tion of obligations or duties or the conferring of rights or privileges
upon corporations or other persons, such words shall be construed
to mean the State corporation commission; provided, however, that
there shall be no duplication in the office of the State corporation com-
mission in the matter of the recordation of charters, or amendments,
extensions or renewals of charters, or in the recordation of papers, docu-
ments or other material or matter in relation to foreign corporations,
or in any other matter of recordation. But all charters shall be re-
corded by the State corporation commission in the same manner as
charters are required to be recorded by the secretary of the Common-
wealth on the day before this amendatory act takes effect. All fees
now chargeable by the secretary of the Commonwealth for doing the
work or performing the services hereby transferred to the State cor-
poration commission shall be hereafter chargeable by the State cor-
poration commission. Section thirty-seven hundred and three of the
Code of Virginia, in relation to the making and certification of copies
by the clerk of the State corporation commission from any record,
document, paper or file in his office shall be applicable to the matter
and material mentioned in this paragraph. Upon the taking effect of
this section, all provisions of law requiring the State corporation com-
mission to make certifications of any written matter or material to the
secretary of the Commonwealth for recordation shall be repealed, and
the recordation of charters, charter amendments, and all other docu-
ments and papers of every kind concerning corporations, both foreign
and domestic, when made in the office of the State corporation com-
mission shall have the same force and legal effect as the recordation
or the lodging for recordation of such charters, charter amendments,
and all other such documents and papers of every kind formerly had
in the office of the secretary of the Commonwealth. Upon the taking
effect of this section, the State corporation commission shall take pos-
session of all books, papers, records and equipment theretofore made,
used or acquired by the secretary of the Commonwealth in the exercise
of the powers and in the performance of the duties hereby transferred
to the said State corporation commission.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force on and after
its passage.