CHAPTER 642
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 36
Proposing an amendment to Section 80 of the Constitution of Virginia.

Agreed to by the House of Delegates, February 12, 1962
Agreed to by the Senate, February 28, 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 hun-
dred sixty and referred to this, the next General Assembly, and published
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,

yerefore. he it
Resolved by the House of Delegates of Virginia, the Senate concurring,
a majority of the members elected to each house agreeing, That the follow-
ing 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. 30, which is as follows:

See. 30. General Assembly may prescribe property qualification for
voting in county, city or town elections.—The General Assembly may pre-
scribe a property qualification not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars
for voters in any county or subdivision thereof, or city or town as a pre-
requisite for voting in any election for officers, other than the members of
the General Assembly, to be wholly elected by the voters of such county or
subdivision thereof, or city, or town, such action, if taken, to be had upon
the initiative of a representative in the General Assembly of the county,
city or town affected; provided, that the General Assembly, in its discretion,
may make such exemptions from the operation of said property qualifica-
ticns as shall not be in conflict with the Constitution of the United States.

And insert in lieu thereof the following:

sec. 30. The General Assembly may prescribe a property qualification
not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars for voters in any county or sub-
division thereof, or city or town as a prerequisite for voting in any election
for officers, other than the members of the General Assembly, to be wholly
elected by the voters of such county or subdivision thereof, or city, or town,
such action, if taken, to be had upon the initiative of a representative in
the General Assembly of the county, city or town affected; provided, that
the General Assembly, in its discretion, may make such exemptions from
the operation of said property qualifications as shall not be in conflict with
the Constitution of the United States; provided, further, that the General
Assembly may require, in every referendum required by the Constitution
or laws of this Commonwealth to be held upon the question of the issuance
of bonds or other obligations of the Commonwealth or any of its political
subdivisions, that every voter in such referendum shall be a freeholder of
land within the Commonwealth or within the political subdivision to be
obligated, as the case may be, and the General Assembly shall define who
shall be a freeholder for the purposes of any such referendum.