Chap. 410.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 154 of the Code of Virginia
as heretofore amended, relating to duties of candidates for office and of person:
to whom abstracts of primary elections are furnished. [H B 411]

Approved March 31, 1932

I. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sectior
one hundred and fifty-four of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore
amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 154. Duty of candidates for office—Any person who in-
tends to be a candidate for any office, State or national, to be elected
by the electors of the State at large or of a congressional district,
shall, at least sixty days before such election, if it be a general elec-
tion, and at least thirty days before such election if it be a special elec-
tion, notify the secretary of the Commonwealth, in writing, attested by
two witnesses, of such intention, designating the office for which he is
a candidate. Such written notice shall be signed by the said candidate,
but, if he be incapable of writing his proper signature, then some mark
adopted by him as his signature shall be acknowledged before some
officer authorized to take acknowledgments to deeds and in the same
manner. Any person who intends to be a candidate for any office not
embraced in the foregoing, at any election, shall give notice at least
sixty days before such election, if it be a general election, and at least
thirty days before such election if it be a special election, to the county
clerk or clerks of the county or counties, and to the clerk or clerks of
the corporation courts of the city or cities whose electors vote for such
office, which notice shall in all respects be in the same form as that
above described required to be given to the secretary of the Common-
wealth. No person not announcing his candidacy as above, or who is
not qualified to vote in the election in which he offers as a candidate,
shall have his name printed on the ballots provided for such election,
unless he be a party primary nominee. On receipt of the foregoing
notice it shall be the duty of the secretary of the Commonwealth to
notify the secretary of each electoral board of each county and city of
the State or of said congressional district, and it shall be the duty of
said clerk or clerks to notify the secretary of the electoral boards of
heir respective counties and cities, which notices shall be sent by the
secretary of the Commonwealth and clerks immediately after the time
nas expired in which candidates may give notice of their candidacy as
prescribed by this section, and upon the failure or refusal of said clerk
or clerks to immediately certify to said electoral board the name of
sach and every candidate which has been duly filed, the judge of the
circuit or corporation court may upon motion of any candidate affected
immediately certify to said electoral board the name of each and every
~andidate which has been duly filed. Such clerks shall send copies of
the original notices of candidacy, to the secretary of the electoral
board when they notify him. The names of party primary nominees
to be voted on in the several counties and cities shall be furnished the
secretaries of the respective electoral boards thereof by the several
persons to whom the abstracts of primary elections must be furnished
under section two hundred and forty-one. Whenever any secretary of
the electoral board is elected, he shall at once notify the secretary of
the Commonwealth of his election, and inform him as to his postoffice
address.