Chap. 21.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6172 of the Code of Virginia,
as heretofore amended, authorizing courts to strike certain cases from its docket,
and prescribing how such cases may be reinstated. [S B 43]

Approved February 12, 1942

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
sixty-one hundred and seventy-two of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore
amended, be amended and re-enacted as follows:

Section 6172. Certain Cases Struck from Docket After Two Years ;
Reinstatement.—Any court in which is pending a case wherein for more
than two years there has been no order or proceeding, except to continue
it, may, in its discretion, order it to be struck from its docket ; and it shall
thereby be discontinued. A court making such order may direct it to be
published in such newspaper as it may designate. The clerk of the court
shall notify the parties in interest if known, or their counsel of record, if
living, at his last-known address, at least fifteen days before the entry of
such order of dismissal so that all parties may have an opportunity to be
heard on it. Any such case may be reinstated, on motion, and after notice
to the parties in interest if known or their counsel of record, within one
year from the date of such order but not after.

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