CHAPTER 414

An Act to amend and reenact § 2-29, as amended, of the Code of Virginia,
relating to disabilities to hold office. [H 436]

Approved March 29, 1958

Be itt enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 2-29, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 2-29. § 2-27 shall not be construed:

(1) To prevent members of Congress from acting as justices of the
peace, visitors of the University of Virginia or the Virginia Military Insti-
tute, or from holding offices in the militia;

(2) To exclude from offices under the State, * city or town government
or offices under any county, a person to whom * a pension has been granted
* by the United States or who receives retirement compensation in any
manner from the United States, or any person receiving or entitled to
receive benefits under the Federal Old-Age and Survivors’ Insurance Sys-
tem or under the Federal Railroad Retirement Act;

(3) To exclude from such office or post officers or soldiers on account
of the recompense they may receive from the United States when called
out in actual duty;

(4) To prevent United States commissioners or United States census
enumerators, supervisors, or the clerks under the supervisor of the United
States census, or fourth-class or third-class postmasters, or United States
caretakers of the National Guard of Virginia, from acting as notaries,
school trustees, justices of the peace, or supervisors, or from holding any
district office under the government of any county, or the office of council-
man of any town or city in this State;

(5) To prevent any United States rural mail carrier, or star route
mail carrier from being appointed and acting as notary public or holding
any county or district office;

(6) To prevent any civilian employee of the United States govern-
ment from being appointed and acting as notary public;
(7) To prevent any United States commissioners or referees in bank-
ruptcy from holding the office of commissioner in chancery, bail commis-
sioner, jury commissioner, commissioner of accounts, assistant commis-
sioner of accounts, assistant police justice or substitute or assistant civil
justice, or assistant judge of a municipal court of any city or assistant
judge of a juvenile and domestic relations court of any city;

(8) To prevent any person holding office or a post of profit, trust or
emolument, civil, legislative, executive or judicial, under the government of
the United States, from being a member of the militia, or holding office
therein, or from being a director in a State institution ;

(9) To prevent foremen, quartermen, leadingmen, artisans, clerks or
laborers, employed in any navy yard or naval reservation in Virginia, from
holding any office under the government of any city, town or county in
this Commonwealth;

‘(10) To prevent any United States government clerk from holding
any office under the government of any town or city; .

(11) To prevent any United States government employee, otherwise
eligible, from holding any office under the government of any county in
this State having a population in excess of three hundred inhabitants per
square mile, or of any city or county adjoining any county having a popu-
lation in excess of two thousand inhabitants per square mile;

(12) To prevent any person holding an office under the United States
government from holding a position under the management and control
of the State Board of Health; ; ;

(13) To prevent any State federal director of this State in the employ-
ment service of the United States Department of Labor from holding the
office of Commissioner of Labor of this State; or

(14) To prevent clerks and employees of the Federal government
engaged in the departmental service in Washington from acting as school
trustees.