Chap. 188.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3388 of the Code of Virginia,
as heretofore amended, relating to clerks’ offices of courts, so as to permit clerks’
offices in cities of certain classes to be closed on certain days. [S B 142]

_ Approved March 11, 1942

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty-three hundred and eighty-eight of the Code of Virginia, as hereto-
fore amended, be amended and re-enacted as follows:

Section 3388. Clerks’ Offices to be Kept Open on Certain Days;
Records, Et Cetera, Open to Inspection ; copies Authorized.—The clerks
office of every court shall be kept open on every day, except Sunday,
Fourth of July, Thanksgiving day and Christmas day, during convenient
hours, for the transaction of business; provided, however, that in cities
the said office may be closed on Memorial Day, Labor Day and Armistice
Day, and the judge of the circuit court of any county may authorize the
clerk to close the said office on such day or days. The judge of any cir-
cuit or corporation court, with the approval of the board of supervisors or
city council, as the case may be, may also authorize the clerk to close the
office on Saturday at one o’clock, post meridian; and provided further,
that in cities having a population of one hundred and seventy thousand or
more according to the last preceding United States census, the said clerk’s
office of any court may be closed on all days which are made legal holidays
under the provisions of section fifty-seven hundred and fifty-eight of the
Code of Virginia and amendments thereto. The records and papers of
every court shall be open to inspection by any person, and the clerk shall,
when required, furnish copies thereof, except in cases where it is other-
wise specially provided. But no person shall be permitted to use the clerk’s
office for the purpose of making copies of records in such manner, or to.
such extent, as shall interfere with the business of the office, or with the
reasonable use of the same by the general public.