Chap. 336.—An ACT to amend Section 253 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the
furnishing of lists of expenses by candidates, so as to require to be included any
payments of money or consideration given or promised to the publisher of any
periodical ; and to repeal Section 232 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relat-
ing to statement of expenditures by candidates in primaries. [H B 352]

Approved March 31, 1942

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
two hundred and fifty-three of the Code of Virginia be amended and re-
enacted, as follows: 2

Section 253. Requiring candidates to furnish lists of expenses ; oath
to be filed—Every person who shall be a candidate before any caucus or
convention, or at any primary election or at any election for any State,
county, city, township, district or municipal office, or for Senator or mem-
ber of the House of Delegates of Virginia, or for Senator or representa-
tive in the Congress of the United States, shall, within thirty days after
the election, caucus, convention or primary election held to fill such of-
fice or place, make out and file with the officer or board empowered by
law to issue certificates of election to such office or place, and a duplicate
thereof with the clerk of the circuit court of the county or corporation
court of the city for any county or city in which such candidate resides, a
statement in writing, which statement and duplicate shall be subscribed
and sworn to by such candidate before an officer authorized to administer
oaths, setting forth in detail all sums of money contributed, disbursed,
expended or promised by him, and to the best of his knowledge and be-
lief by any persons or person in his behalf, wholly of in part, endeavor-
ing to secure his nomination or election to such office or place ; and also all
sums of money contributed, disbursed, expended or promised by him in
support and in connection with the nomination or election of any other
person at such election, primary or nominating convention, and showing
the dates when, the persons to whom and the purposes for which all such
sums were paid, expended or promised. If any money or other considera-
tion has been paid or promised to any newspaper, magazine or other peri-
odical, the name of such newspaper, magazine or other periodical shall
be set forth as well as the amount or thing promised or paid. In this state-
ment all sums or other consideration promised by him and not paid shall
be included. Such statement, when so filed, shall immediately be subject
to public inspection and examination, and shall be and become a public
record. No officer shall receive and file anv statement of anv candidate
unless it is made in accordance with the requirements of this chapter.
Such statement shall also set forth that the same is as full and explicit as
affiant is able to make it; and he shall also, before some officer qualified
to administer oaths, take, subscribe to and file with said statement the
following oath:

“I do solemnly swear that the statement herewith filed embraces all
money spent by me or in’ my behalf, with my knowledge and consent, by
any adherents and friends; that I have neither directly nor indirectly ar-
ranged, encouraged nor connived at the spending of any money other than
as shown in my said statement ; that I have not repaid any money so spent
or claimed to have been so spent, and that I will not do so, and that I
have not violated any of the provisions of law governing candidates for
office, in letter or in spirit. So help me God.”

2. Be it further enacted, That section two hundred and thirty-two
of the Code of Virginia, as amended, is repealed.