Chap. 331.—An ACT to provide for the enrollment of an act to codify the laws
of the State, and to relieve the Clerk of the House of Delegates, as Keeper of
the Rolls of the State, and the Director of the Division of Purchase and
Printing from certain duties in connection with an act to codify the laws of
the State. {S 259}

Approved March 31, 1948

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. The provisions of section three hundred seven of the Code of
Virginia, as amended, concerning the manner and method of enrollment
of the Acts of the General Assembly shall not apply to an act to codify
the laws of the State. In the case of such legislation the bill itself or a copy
thereof, with all amendments, te such bill, if any there be, incorporated
therein, or with such amendments or copies thereof attached to or accom-
panying such bill or copy of such bill, shall be taken and preserved as the
enrolled bill. If any such amendments are actually incorporated in the bill,
or copy of the bill, they may be so incorporated in such manner and by
such method as the Clerk of the House of Delegates deems most practi-
cable, except that the Clerk shall not, in order to accomplish such incor-
poration, require the entire bill to be reprinted, or require any portion
of the bill to be reprinted which is not affected by any amendment. Such
bill or copy, with the amendments or copies of the amendments as a
part of the bill or copy thereof, as made up by the Clerk in accordance
with this act, shall be signed by the presiding officers of the Senate and
House of Delegates and sent in such form to the Governor for his
approval.

The Clerk of the House of Delegates, as Keeper of the Rolls of the
State, shall not be required to furnish to anyone a copy of an act to
codify the laws of the State, nor to prepare such an act for publication,
nor to furnish to the Director of the Division of Purchase and Printing
‘the manuscript of such an act, or any copy thereof. Nor shall the Clerk
of the House of Delegates or the Director of the Division of Purchase
and Printing be required to print, publish or distribute an act to codify
the laws of the State, as other acts and the joint resolutions of the General
Assembly are printed, published or distributed; unless it should be pro-
vided in the act to codify the laws, as adopted, that some titles, chapters,
articles or sections thereof shall take effect in advance of the remainder
of the act, in which event such titles, chapters, articles, and sections of
the act, with all amendments which affect them actually incorporated
therein, shall be printed and distributed as are other acts of Assembly,
but may be separately printed and bound. The Director of the Division
of Purchase and Printing shall, however, cause to be done any printing
that the Clerk of the House of Delegates requires to be done as a part
of the process of incorporation of amendments to any bill to codify the
laws of the State.

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