CHAPTER 466

An Act to provide for the further gradual revision of the Code of Vir-
ginia, under the direction of the Virginia Code Commission; to direct
the revision of Title 19, dealing with criminal procedure and to appro-
priate to the Virginia Code Commission certain funds to carry out
the project.

(H 574]

Approved March 29, 1958

Be it enacted hy the General Assembly of Virginia:

. § 1. The revision of the Code of Virginia shall be continued by re-
vising one title at a time. In revising each title, all other sections of the
Code relating to the same subject matter shall be revised to the extent
necessary. Experts shall be employed by the Virginia Code Commission to
assist in the project. The Commission may also accept the services of
qualified volunteers who are willing to serve without pay. Tentative drafts
of proposed revisions shall be printed and circulated among interested
persons and their comments solicited.

§ 2. The revision of Title 19, dealing with criminal procedure, shall
be undertaken.
§ 3. The Commission shall submit to the Governor and the General
Assembly, on or before October one, nineteen hundred fifty-nine, a report
of its recommendations, together with suggested legislation necessary to
carry such recommendations into effect. .

_§ 4. The Commission is authorized to expend funds made available
to it by this Act for the purpose of paying the expenses of members of
the Commission, and the expenses of members of committees selected by
it, when engaged in the performance of duties imposed by this Act, as
well as the salaries and expenses of persons employed by the Commission
to work on the revision of the titles of the Code herein mentioned, and
other expenses of the Commission properly chargeable to this project.

2. There is hereby appropriated to the Virginia Code Commission, to be
used solely for the purposes hereinaboye set forth, the sum of ten thou-
sand dollars, or so much thereof as shall be necessary.