CHAPTER 641
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 22
Proposing amendments to Section 20 of the Constitution of Virginia

Agreed to by the House of Delegates, January 30, 1962
Agreed to by the Senate, February 16, 1962

Whereas, the proposed amendment to the Constitution of Virginia
hereinafter set forth, was agreed to by a majority of the members elected
to the two houses of the General Assembly at the session of nineteen
hundred sixty and referred to this, the next General Assembly, and pub-
lished for three months, as required by the Constitution of Virginia, and
as shown by report of such publication by the Clerk of the House of
Delegates; now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the House of Delegates of Virginia, the Senate concurring,
a majority of the members elected to each house agreeing, That the fol-
lowing amendment to the Constitution of Virginia be, and the same is
hereby, proposed in conformity with the provisions of section one hundred
and ninety-six of the Constitution of Virginia, namely:

Strike from the Constitution of Virginia Sec. 20 which is as follows:

Sec. 20. Who may register.— Every citizen of the United States, having
the qualifications of age and residence required in section eighteen, shall
be entitled to register, provided:

First. That he has personally paid to the proper officer all State poll
taxes legally assessed or assessable against him for the three years next
preceding that in which he offers to register; or, if he come of age at such
time that no poll tax shall have been assessable against him for the year
preceding the year in which he offers to register, has paid one dollar and
fifty cents, in satisfaction of the first year’s poll tax assessable against
him; and

Second. That, unless physically unable, he make application to register
in his own handwriting, without aid, suggestion, or memorandum, in the
presence of the registration officer, stating therein his name, age, date
and place of birth, residence and occupation at the time and for the one
year next preceding, and whether he has previously voted, and, if so, the
State, county, and precinct in which he voted last; and

Third. That he answer on oath any and all questions affecting his
qualifications as an elector, submitted to him by the registration officer,
which questions, and his answers thereto, shall be reduced to writing,
certified by the said officers, and preserved as a part of his official records.

And insert in lieu thereof the following:

Sec. 20. Every citizen of the United States, having the qualifications
of age and residence required in section eighteen, shall be entitled to
register, provided:

First. That he has personally paid to the proper officer all State poll
taxes legally assessed or assessable against him for the three years next
preceding that in which he offers to register; or, if he come of age at
such time that no poll tax shall have been assessable against him for
the vear preceding the year in which he offers to register, has paid one
dollar and fifty cents, in satisfaction of the first year’s poll tax assessable
against him; and,

Second. That, unless physically unable, he make application to register
in his own handwriting, on a form which may be provided by the regis-
tration officer, without aid, suggestion, or other memorandum, in the
presence of the registration officers, stating therein his name, age, date
and place of birth, residence and occupation at the time and for the one
vear next preceding, and whether he has previously voted, and, if so, the
State, county, and precinct in which he voted last; and,

Third. That he answer on oath any and all questions affecting his
qualifications as an elector, submitted to him by the registration officer,
which questions, and his answers thereto, shall be reduced to writing,
certified by the said officer, and preserved as a part of his official records.