Chap. 309.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 82 of the Code of Virginia,
relating to qualifications and disqualifications of voters at general elections.

[H B 140]
Approved March 29, 1934

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
eighty-two of the Code of Virginia be amended and re-enacted so as
to read as follows:

Section 82. Qualifications and disqualifications of voters at general
elections.—Every citizen of the United States twenty-one years of age,
who has been a resident of the State one year, of the county, city or
town, six months, and of the precinct in which he offers to vote thirty

days next preceding the election, in which he offers to vote, has been
duly registered, and has paid his State poll taxes, as required by law,
and is otherwise qualified, under the Constitution and laws of this State,
shall be entitled to vote for members of the General Assembly, and all
officers elective by the people, but removal from one precinct to another
in the same county, city or town, shall not deprive any person of his
right to vote in the precinct from which he has moved, until the expira-
tion of thirty days from such removal.

But the following persons shall be excluded from registering and
voting: idiots, insane persons and paupers; persons who, prior to the
adoption of the Constitution, were disqualified from voting by convic-
tion of crime, either within or without the State, and whose disabilities
shall not have been removed; persons convicted after the adoption of
the Constitution, either within or without this State, of treason, or of
any felony, bribery, petit larceny, obtaining money or property under
false pretenses, embezzlement, forgery or perjury; persons who, while
citizens of this State since the adoption of the Constitution, have fought
a duel with a deadly weapon, or sent or accepted a challenge to fight
such duel, either within or without this State, or knowingly conveyed
a challenge, or aided or assisted in any way in the fighting of such duel.

No officer, soldier, seaman or marine of the United States army or
navy, shall be deemed to have gained a residence as to the right of suf-
frage in the State, or in any county, city or town thereof, by reason of
his being stationed therein, nor shall any inmate of any charitable in-
stitution, or a student in any institution of learning, be regarded as hav-
ing either gained or lost a residence as to the right of suffrage, by reason
of his location or sojourn in such institution.