CHAPTER 49

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a section
numbered 51-28.2, so as to provide survivor benefits for widows of
certain judges and commissioners. rH 93)

Approved February 14, 1962

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding thereto a section
numbered 51-28.2, as follows:

§ 51-28.2. A judge or commissioner who dies in office at a time when
he could have retired under any of the provisions of §§ 51-3, 51-12, 51-15
or 51-18, and who has not retired, and who has complied with the require-
ments of § 51-26, shall be deemed to have notified the Governor ninety
days before the day of his death of his intention to retire and to elect to
receive a last-survivor annuity computed under the provisions of § 51-28.1,
namely, an annuity during his lifetime and, after his death, an annuity of
an equal amount to his widow during her lifetime or widowhood. The
annuity shall be paid in the same manner as the retirement salary.
2, An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.