CHAPTER 234

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 8-1.2 and 80-5 of the Code of Virginia,
so as to specifically exempt certain rights of members of the General
Assembly and other persons from the effect of certain rules prescribed
by the Supreme Court of Appeals.

[fH 177]

Approved March 8, 1952
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 8-1.2 and 30-5 of the Code of Virginia be amended and re-
enacted as follows:

§ 8-1.2. The Virginia Code Commission is directed to include the
rules adopted by the Supreme Court of Appeals, effective February one,
nineteen hundred fifty, in the * pocket supplement of the Code of Vir-
ginia, and cause them to be properly indexed and annotated.

The rules so adopted shall supersede all statutory provisions in con-
flict therewith, provided that no such rule shall operate to restrict or
abridge any right provided by § 80-5 of the Code of Virginia.

§ 30-5. Any party to an action or proceeding in any court, ancluding
the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, commission or other tribunal
having judicial or quasi judicial powers or jurisdiction, who is an officer
or member of the General Assembly, or who has, prior to or during the
session of the General Assembly, employed or retained to represent him in
such action or proceeding an attorney who is an officer or member of the
General Assembly, shall be entitled to a continuance as a matter of right
during the period beginning thirty days prior to the commencement of the
session and ending thirty days after the adjournment thereof; and the
period required by any statute or rule for the filing of any pleading or the
performance of any act relating thereto shall be extended until thirty days
after any such session. The failure of any court, commission or other tri-
bunal to allow such continuance when requested so to do or the requiring
of such filing or act during the period hereinabove specified shall constitute
reversible error; provided that this section shall not prevent the granting
of temporary injunctive relief, or the dissolution or extension of a tem-
porary injunction, but the right to such relief shall remain in the sound
discretion of the court or other such tribunal.

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