Chap. 324.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2702 of the Code of Virginia.
[S B 334]
Approved March 25, 1932

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

Section 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, super-
intendent of the poor, county surveyor, or supervisor shall hold any
other office, elective or appointive, at the same time, except that of a
city or town attorney, notary public, commissioner in chancery, com-
missioner of accounts and local registrars of deaths and births, and
member of any commission or board appointive by the governor, and
a commissioner of the revenue of a county may also be commissioner
of the revenue of a town located in said county, also that game war-
dens may be employees of the federal forest reserve, and except also
that a county surveyor may, at the same time, hold the office of oyster
inspector, 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 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. Provided that an attorney for the Commonwealth
may be employed or appointed by the attorney general as a special
prosecutor in prohibition cases.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its
passage. |