CHAPTER 216

AN ACT to amend and reenact §& 1 of chapter 508 of the Acts of the
General Assembly of Virginia of 1948, approved April 1, 1948,
which was continued in effect by § 24-119 of the Code of 1950,
providing for the registration and reregistration of persons
qualified to vote and the transfer of registrations of persons
who have registered in lieu of such reregistrations in cities
containing more than one hundred and ninety thousand popu-
lation according to the last United States census, in relation to
persons who are qualified to vote in elections held in such cities
in the calendar year 1951.

[ S 259 ]

Approved March 15, 1950

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 1 of Chapter 408 of the Acts of the General Assembly of
Virginia, approved April 1, 1948, which was continued in effect by
§ 24-119 of the Code of 1950, be amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 1. That in cities containing more than one hundred and
ninety thousand population according to the last United States
census, there shall be a reregistration of all persons who have
registered to vote under the constitution and general laws of the
Commonwealth, or a transfer of persons who have registered to
vote, in lieu of such reregistration, in the calendar year nineteen
hundred forty-nine; and there shall be a reregistration, or transfer
in lieu thereof of such persons during each tenth calendar year
thereafter. The cost and expense of such reregistrations and trans-
fers shall be borne by such cities. No person who has registered
to vote prior to the first day of January, nineteen hundred forty-
nine, or prior to the first day of January of each tenth calendar
year thereafter shall be qualified to vote in any election held in
any calendar year subsequent to nineteen hundred forty-nine or in
any calendar year subsequent to each tenth year thereafter, unless
he or she reregisters, or causes the transfer of his or her registra-
tion in lieu thereof, according to the provisions of this act; pro-
vided, however, nothing herein contained shall disqualify any person
who has at any time registered to vote and has paid all poll taxes
assessed or assessable against him or her as a prerequisite to vote in
any such election within the time prescribed by law, from voting tn
any election held in such cities during the calendar year 1951, but
such person shall not be qualified to vote in any election held in such
cities subsequent to the calendar year 1951 unless such person
reregisters or causes the transfer of his or her registration in lieu
thereof, in accordance with the provisions of this act.

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