CHAPTER 427

An Act to amend and reenact § 8-653 of the Code of Virginia, relating to
what notice required to be given municipal corporations in order to
bring proceedings arising from certain claims so as to prescribe the
time within which certain notice may be given and how the provisions
of the section may be superseded.

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Approved April 3, 1954
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

Aan That § 8-653 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
ollows:

§ 8-653. No action shall be maintained against any city or town
for injury to any person or property or for wrongful death alleged to
have been sustained by reason of the negligence of the city or town, or of
any officer, agent or employee thereof, unless a written statement by the
claimant, his agent, attorney or representative of the nature of the claim
and of the time and place at which the injury is alleged to have occurred
or been received shall have been filed with the city attorney or town
attorney, or with the mayor, or chief executive, within sixty days after
such cause of action shall have accrued, except that when the claimant is
an infant or non compos mentis, or the injured party dies within such
sixty days, such statement may be filed within one hundred and twenty
days; and statements pursuant to this section shall be valid, notwith-
standing any contrary charter provision of any city or town.

This section as amended shall take precedence over the provisions of
all charters and amendments thereto of municipal corporations in conflict
herewith heretofore granted. It is further declared that as to any such
future charter or amendment thereto that any provision therein in conflict
with this section as amended shall be deemed to be invalid as being in
conflict with § 52 of the Constitution unless such conflict be stated in the
title to such proposed charter or amendment thereto by the words “con-
flicting with § 8-653 of the Code” or substantially similar language.