CHAPTER 503

An Act to provide for the continuation of the revision of Title 18 of the
Code of Virginia under the direction of the Virginia Code Commission;
and to appropriate to the Virginia Code Commission certain funds to
continue the project.

{H 640]

Approved March 29, 1958

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1, § 1. The Virginia Code Commission shall continue the revision of
Title 18 of the Code of Virginia which was undertaken pursuant to Chapter
286 of the Acts of Assembly of 1956, approved March 9, 1956. Experts
shall be employed by the Commission to assist in the continuation of the
project. The Commission may also accept the services of qualified volun-
teers who are willing to serve without pay.
§ 2. Tentative drafts of proposed revisions shall be printed and
circulated among interested persons and groups and their comments

solicited.

§ 8. The Commission shall submit to the Governor and the General
Assembly, on or before October one, nineteen hundred and fifty-nine, a
report of its recommendations, together with suggested legislation neces-
sary 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 herein mentioned, and other expenses of the Com-
mission properly chargeable against this project. i.

2. There is hereby appropriated to the Virginia Code Commission, to be
used solely for the purposes hereinabove set forth, the sum of ten thousand
dollars, or so much thereef as shall be necessary.

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