Chap. 130.—An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section num-
bered 1808-a 1 to provide for certain hours of work for women for a certain
limited duration of emergency. [H 295]

Approved March 3, 1944

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding a new section
numbered eighteen hundred eight-a 1, as follows:

Section 1808-a 1. Notwithstanding any provision of any other law.
particularly any provision of section eighteen hundred eight of the Code.
the hours of work for women are extended to and may be not more than
fifty-two hours in any one week and not more than ten hours in any
one day of twenty-four hours in any employment which is essential to
the prosecution of the war and for the duration of the war as defined
by the War Manpower Commission or other Federal agency authorized
to designate essential activities in the prosecution of the war in which the
United States is now engaged as declared by the Congress of the United
States.

The provisions of this section shall remain in effect for two years
from the effective date of this act or until the war emergency is over,
whichever happens first.

Provided, however, that the provisions of this act shall not prevent
the commissioner of labor from issuing and granting the permits pro-
vided for under the provisions of chapter one hundred five of the Acts of
the Assembly of nineteen hundred forty-two, approved March four, nine-
teen hundred forty-two.

2. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.