Chap. 4.——An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2703 of the Code of Virginia,
relating to where officers shall reside. [H B 34]

Approved February 7, 1942

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

Section 2703. Where officers shall reside. —Every distrtcs officer
shall at the time of his election or appointment, have resided in the district
for which he is elected or appointed thirty days next preceding his election
or appointment, and residence in any incorporated town within the district
shall be regarded as residence in said district. Every county officer shall,

at the time of his election or appointinent, have resided one year next
preceding his election or appointment, either in the county for which he
is elected or appointed, or in the city wherein the courthouse of said
county is, except that, if no practicing lawyer, who has resided in the
county or in such city for the period aforesaid, offer for election or ap-
pointment, it shall be lawful to elect or appoint as attorney for the Com-
monwealth for such county a nonresident, or one who has not resided in
the county, or in such city, for the period above mentioned, and except,
further, that if no qualified surveyor, who has resided in the county
the aforesaid period, offers for appointment, it shall be lawful to appoint,
as county surveyor, a nonresident, or one who has not resided in the
county for the requisite period, if the judge or the court making the ap-
pointment certifies that there is no qualified surveyor, having the requisite
qualifications as to residence, who will serve as such. Every city and
town officer except members of the police and fire departments shall, at
the time of his election or appointment, have resided one year next pre-
ceding his election or appointment in such city or town.