CHAPTER 330

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 1-13.22 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to construction of the word “population”.
{H 734]

Approved March 29, 1958

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 1-13.22 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
follows:

§ 1-13.22. The word “population” used in any act of the General
Assembly with reference to any county, city or town, unless the context
clearly indicates some other meaning, shall be construed to mean the
population of such county, city or town as shown by the United States
census latest preceding the time at which any provision dependent upon
population is being applied, or the time as of which it is being construed,
to the end that there will be such flexibility as will constitute the word of
general] and variable, instead of special and invariable, significance; pro-
vided, however, that where two or more political subdivisions are con-
solidated, the population of the consolidated county or city shall be the
combined population of the consolidating subdivisions, under the last
preceding United States census.