CHAPTER 209

An Act to amend and reenact § 24-121 of the Code of Virginia, relating to
copies of certain lists; how prepared and delivered to certain sheriffs;
how posted by such sheriffs, so as to provide additional lists to be
delivered to certain registrars.

[H 395]

Approved March 6, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
an That § 24-121 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
ollows:

§ 24-121. The clerk within ten days from the receipt of the list, shall
make and certify a sufficient number of copies thereof, and shall deliver
one copy for each voting place in his county or city and one copy for each
of the registrars in the county to the sheriff of the county or sergeant of
the city, whose duty it shall be to post one copy without delay, and in no
event later than five days after receipt thereof, at each of the voting
places and to deliver one copy to each of the registrars in the county
and within ten days from the receipt thereof to make return on oath to
the clerk as to the places where and dates at which such copies were
respectively posted and delivered. The clerk shall record the return
in a book kept in his office for the purpose. However, no failure upon the
part of the sheriff to deliver a copy of the list to any registrar shall operate
fo invalidate. an election.

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