CHAPTER 370

An Act to amend and reenact § 24-194.8 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to the appointment of additional judges of election and clerks in
certain counties.

(H 494]

Approved March 14, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 24-194.3 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
as follows:

§ 24-194.8. The electoral board of any county containing a popula-
tion of more than fifty thousand and being adjacent to a city with a
population of more than two hundred twenty-five thousand may at any
time appoint such additional judges, clerk, or clerks for any voting place
in the county when the board deems additional judges, clerk, or clerks
necessary to facilitate voting at such place in any general, primary or
special election. In any county having therein an incorporated town with
a population of not less than four thousand three hundred fifty nor more
than four thousand five hundred and in which there is only one voting
precinct, the electoral board may in its discretion appoint not more than
three additional judges and not more than four additional clerks for any
general, special or primary election. The qualifications of such judges,
clerk, or clerks shall be the same as those prescribed for judges and clerks
required by law to be appointed for holding general, primary or special
elections. There shall be administered to the additional judges, clerk, or
clerks by the judges of election, or either of them, or by the officer swear-
ing the judges, the same oath as that taken by the judges. The additional
judges, clerk, or clerks shall receive the same compensation for their
services as is prescribed by law for judges and clerks required to be
appointed for holding such elections, to be paid out of the treasury of
such county.

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