CHAPTER 90

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered
58-780.1, relating to the validation of certain general reassessments
of real estate in certain counties.

[S 150]

Approved March 1, 1954

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding a section numbered
58-780.1 as follows:

§ 58-780.1. In any county in which the general reassessment of real
estate was required by § 58-780 to be made in the year nineteen hundred
fifty-two and such reassessment was not completed in the year nineteen
hundred fifty-two nor within sixty days thereafter but has since been com-
pleted, such general reassessment for the year nineteen hundred fifty-three
is hereby validated and made operative as to taxes to be assessed and
collected after December thirty-one, nineteen hundred fifty-three as fully
and completely as if it had been completed by the thirty-first day of Decem-
ber, nineteen hundred fifty-two.
An Act to amend and reenact § 15-240 as amended of the Code of Virginia,
relating to the appointment and election of tie breakers. g
(S 161]

Approved March 1, 1954
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 15-240, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 15-240. The circuit court of each county, or the judge thereof in
vacation, shall designate one of the commissioners in chancery of such
court, whose duty it shall be to cast the deciding vote in case of tie, as
set forth in § 15-245 which designation shall be by order entered in ‘the
common law order book. The appointment may be changed from time to
time, as the court or judge thereof in vacation may deem proper, and any
substituted commissioner shall take the place of his predecessor just in
the condition as to notice or other matters as if he had always been the
commissioner; provided that in any county having the county executive
form of organization and government and having a population of more
than twenty thousand but less than fifty thousand inhabitants such tie
breaker shall be a resident and landowner of such county; physically resid-
ing therein and not necessarily a commissioner in chancery and further;
provided that in any county having a population in excess of ninety-seven
thousand according to the last preceding United States census, and con-
taining an even number of magisterial districts, there shall be elected at
the regular election to be held in November, nineteen hundred fifty-two,
and thereafter at the elections at which members of the board of super-
visors of such county are elected, a tie breaker for such board, who shall,
on and after January one, nineteen hundred fifty-three, exercise in such
county all the powers and perform all the duties conferred or imposed by
law upon tie breakers. In the event of a vacancy in the office of the tie
breaker in any such county, the court or judge shall designate a commis-
sioner to serve as such until the next regular election, at which time a tie
breaker shall be elected for the unexpired term, who shall take office
January one following his election.

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