An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
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Volume | 1946 |
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Law Number | 400 |
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Law Body
Chap. 400.—An ACT to provide for a revision and recodification of the Code of
Virginia and to that end to provide for a Commission charged with the duty
of performing such work, authorizing it to enter into contracts for the necessary
work and directing it to report to the General Assembly for adoption or rejec-
tion of its work; providing for the numbering to be employed in the Code, pro-
viding certain authority as to the arrangement of subject matter, the number
of volumes, the distribution of the finished work; to provide for a continuing
system of keeping such revision current; and to make an appropriation.
[H B 252]
Approved March 30, 1946
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. Section 1. There is hereby created a Commission on Code
Recodification, hereinafter called “Commission”, composed of thé Attor-
ney General, the Director of the Division of Statutory Research and
Drafting, a judge of some city court of the City of Richmond, appointed
by the Governor for a term of four years if his term be so long, a member
of the Senate appointed by the presiding officer of that body for a term
coincident with that as a member of the Senate, and a member of the
House of Delegates appointed by the presiding officer thereof for a term
coinciding with his term as a member of the House of Delegates. Subse-
quent appointments shall be made for similar terms, and all vacancies
shall be filled for the unexpired term, by the person authorized to make
the original appointment. The members of the General Assembly ap-
pointed on the Commission shall receive a per diem of ten dollars a day
for each day spent on business of the Commission, All members shall
receive their necessary expenses incurred in attendance upon meetings
of the Commission.
Section 2. It shall be the duty of the Commission to make a com-
plete recodification of the statute laws of this State of a general nature
beginning with the latest official Code and all acts of the General Assem-
bly subsequent thereto. The Commission shall rearrange, reclassify, re-
number, thoroughly index, and have printed the laws which it deems to
be of a general nature, unrepealed and still controlling. It shall not omit
any unrepealed matter but may report to the General Assembly by sep-
arate report, numbered to correspond with the sections in the revision,
such matters as it considers obsolete, unnecessary, confusing or incon-
sistent, and needing repeal.
Section 3. The Commission is authorized to enter into a contract
with any reputable person for the editorial work, printing and reprinting
of the initial and final portions of its report and other necessary matters
incident to its duties hereunder. The Commission is further authorized
to have such final report printed in not less than three nor more than
ten volumes including the index. The Commission shall be furnished
with necessary office space and shall employ needed secretarial and other
assistance and purchase needed equipment.
‘Section 4. In its report the Commission shall include appropriate
reference to existing laws and the proposed Code sections to which trans-
posed. The report of the Commission shall be made to the Governor and
General Assembly on or before September one, nineteen hyindred forty-
seven. Five hundred -copies of the revision shall be printed for adoption
or rejection by the General Assembly. Within twenty days following
the adjournment sine die of each session of the General Assembly the
Commission shall meet and assign appropriate section numbers in the
Code to all general laws which have been given no specific code designa-
tion by the General Assembly.
2. The sum of fifty thousand dollars is appropriated out of the
yeneral fund of the State treasury for the biennium beginning July one,
1ineteen hundred forty-six, in order to carry out the provisions of this
ict.