CHAPTER 637
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 1-15 and 15-24.8 of the Code of Virginia
relating respectively to standard eastern time and daylight saving
time.
[S 358]
Approved April 4, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 1-15 and 15-24.3 of the Code of Virginia be amended and re-
enacted as follows:
§ 1-15. On and after July one, nineteen hundred forty-six, United
States standard eastern time shall be in effect in all parts of the State of
Virginia, except when and during such time as daylight saving time shall be
in effect; provided, however, that nothing in this section shall be so con-
strued as to be in contravention of Federal law, or duly authorized orders
of the Interstate Commerce Commission with respect to the time zones
of the United States and the application of standard time to interstate
commerce and other matters within such zones.

In all laws, statutes, orders, decrees, rules and regulations relating
to the time of performance of any act by any officer or agency of the
Commonwealth, or any political subdivision thereof, or relating to the time
in which any rights shall accrue or determine, or within which any act
shall or shall not be performed by any person subject to the jurisdiction
of the Commonwealth, and in all public schools, and in all institutions of
the Commonwealth or its political subdivisions, and in all contracts or
choses in action made or to be performed in the Commonwealth, it shall
be understood and intended that the time applicable thereto or referred
to or implied therein shall be United States standard eastern time, or
daylight saving time, when and during such is in effect.

§ 15-24.8. The governing body of a city of over two hundred thousand
but under two hundred twenty-five thousand population and the governing
body of any county adjoining such city and any city within such adjoining
county may by ordinance require, provide for and enforce daylight saving
time in their respective counties and cities. Such time when so prescribed
shall govern the conduct of all businesses and elections in the respective
counties and cities.

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