CHAPTER 695

An Act to amend and reenact § 24-194.2, as amended, of the Code of
Virginia, relating to appointment of additional judges and clerks of
election in certain counties and cities. rH 754]

Approved March 31, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 24-194.2, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended
and reenacted as follows:

§ 24-194.2. The electoral board of any city containing more than
one hundred ninety thousand population, or of any city having a population
of more than twenty thousand but less than thirty thousand inhabitants,
and the electoral board of any county having a density of population in
excess of two thousand per square mile or of any county having a popula-
tion of more than twenty thousand two hundred, but less than twenty-one
thousand may at any time appoint such additional judges, clerk, or
clerks for any voting place in the city or county when the board deems
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additional judges, clerk, or clerks necessary to facilitate voting at such
place in any general, primary or special 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 swearing the judges, the same oath as that taken by the judges.
The additional judges, clerk, or clerks, shall receive the same compensa-
tion for their services as is prescribed by law for judges and clerks re-
quired to be appointed for holding such elections, to be paid out of the
treasury of such city or county.