Chap. 373.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1494 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to rules and regulations of boards of health. [H B 511]

Approved March 31, 1938

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion fourteen hundred and ninety-four of the Code of Virginia be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 1494. Rules and regulations of local boards——They shall
likewise have power to adopt and enforce such reasonable rules and
regulations as they may deem necessary to attain these ends, but
such rules and regulations shall be published once a week for two
successive weeks in some newspaper published in such county or city,
or if there be none, then in a newspaper having general circulation
in such county or city; but in cases of epidemics, rules and regulations
for suppressing the same shall immediately become effective.