Chap. 400.—An ACT to amend and reenact Section 98 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended, relating to the registration of voters, the duties of registrars
and their pay. [H 89]

Approved April 1, 1948

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section ninety-eight of the Code of Virginia, as amended,
be amended and reenacted as follows:

Section 98. When voters registered; duties of registrars; their pay.
—FEach registrar in the counties, cities, and towns of this State shall
annually, thirty days before the day fixed by law for every regular
primary election and every general election to be held therein, at his
office or voting place, proceed to register the names of all qualified voters
within his election district, precinct, town, city, or ward, as the case
may be, who have not previously registered in said registrar’s jurisdic-
tional area, who shall apply to be registered and shall on said day com-
plete the registration of voters for the succeeding primary or general
election. He shall give notice of the time and place at which he will sit
for said purpose at least ten days before each sitting by posting written
or printed notices thereof at ten or more public places in his jurisdiction,
or by publication in a newspaper of general circulation therein. The
registrar shall, at any time previous to the regular days of registration,
register any voter entitled to vote at the next succeeding election who
may apply to him to be registered and for each name so registered on
days other than the regular days of registration he shall receive as
compensation the sum of twenty-five cents in the counties, and in the
cities and towns the sum of ten cents, to be paid out of the treasury
of the county, city or town as the case may be; provided that, if the
registrar be compensated by a salary by or pursuant to a statute dis-
pensing with the payment of any fees to him, he shall not be paid any
fee. It shall be the duty of the registrar within five days after each
sitting to have posted at three or more public places in his jurisdiction
written or printed lists of the names of all persons so admitted to regis-
tration, and at the same time to also certify to the clerk of the circuit
court of the county, or the corporation court of the city a true copy
of such list, and to have a list posted on the day of the election at each
place of voting in his jurisdiction, showing the names of such registrants
residing in that precinct.

And it shall be the duty of the clerk, upon receipt of such list, to
forthwith record in a suitable book, to be kept in his office for that pur-
pose, the names of the registered voters so certified, in alphabetical
arrangement.

For making and certifying such lists the registrars, unless otherwise
compensated therefor, shall be allowed three cents for each ten words,
counting initials as words, and the clerks for recording the same shall be
allowed two cents for each ten words, counting initials as words, the
same to be paid out of the treasury of the county, city or town.

Whenever the name of any registered voter shall have been changed,
either by marriage or order of court, the registrar in whose jurisdiction
such voter is registered shall, upon the written request of such voter,
enter the change upon the registration books and certify the same to
the clerk of the circuit court of the county or the corporation court of the
city, as the case may be, who shall record the change upon the books
kept in his office.

After the completion of the registration on the day fixed therefor
as herein provided, no additional persons shall be registered until after
the day on which the succeeding primary or general election is held.

It shall be the duty of the State Board of Elections to send by mail
to each registrar in the State a copy of this act as soon after its passage
as is practicable.