Chap. 53.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 291 of the Code of Virginia, as
heretofore amended, relating to disabilities to hold office. [H B 26]

Approved February 27, 1932

I. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion two hundred and ninety-one of the Code of Virginia, as hereto-
fore amended be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 291. The preceding section shall not be construed to
prevent members of congress from acting as justices of the peace,
visitors of the University of Virginia and Virginia Military Institute,
or from holding officers in the militia; or to exclude from offices un-
der the State on account of any pension from the United States, a
person to whom such pension has been granted in consequence of an
injury or disability received in war, or to exclude from such office or
post officers or soldiers on account of the recompence they may re-
ceive from the United States when called out in actual duty; or be
construed to prevent United States commissioners or United State:
census enumerators, supervisor, or the clerks under the supervisor o!
the United States census, or fourth-class or third-class postmaster:
from acting as notaries, school trustees, justices of the peace, or su-
pervisors, or from holding any district office under the government of
any county, or as councilman of any town or city in this State; or tc
prevent any United States rural mail carrier, or star route mail car-
rier from being appointed and acting as notary public or holding any
county or district office or to prevent any civilian employee of the
United States government from being appointed and acting as notary
public; or to prevent any United States commissioners from holding
office of commissioner in chancery, bail commissioner, jury commis-
sioner, commissioner of accounts, or assistant commissioner of ac-
counts ; or to prevent any person holding office or post of profit, trust
or emolument, civil, legislative, executive or judicial under the gov-
ernment of the United States, from being a member of the militia,
or holding office therein; or from being a director in a State insti-
tution; or be construed to prevent foremen, quartermen, leading men,
artisans, clerks or laborers, employed in any navy yard or naval res-
ervation in Virginia, from holding any office under the government
of any city, town or county in this Commonwealth, or to prevent any
United States government clerk from holding any office under the
government of any town or city, or to prevent any United States gov-
ernment employee, otherwise eligible from holding any office under
the government of any county in this State having a population in
excess of three hundred inhabitants per square mile according to the
last United States census, or to prevent any person holding an office
under the United States government from holding a position under
the management and control of the State board of health; or to pre-
vent any state federal director for this State in the employment service
of the United States department of labor from holding the office of
commissioner of labor of this State, or to prevent clerks and em-
ployees of the federal government engaged in the departmental
service in Washington from acting as school trustees.

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