Chap. 48.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2702 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended, relating to certain county officers not holding other offices.
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Approved March 1, 1938

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

Section 2702. No person holding the office of county treasurer,
sheriff, attorney for the Commonwealth, county clerk, commissioner of
the revenue, superintendent 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, commissioner of accounts and local registrars of deaths and
births, and member of any commission or board appointive by the Gov-
ernor, and a commissioner of the revenue of a county may also be
commissioner of the revenue of a town located in said county, and a
county treasurer of a county may also be treasurer of a town located
in said county, also that game wardens may be employees of the fed-
eral 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 provided 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 effect from the date
of its passage.