CHAPTER 36

An Act to amend and reenact § 15.1-70 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to members of the board of supervisors of a county transacting bust-
mess with the county. rH 257)

Approved February 17, 1964

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

: P That § 15.1-70 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
ollows:

§ 15.1-70. But in a county having a population of not less than
twenty-one thousand inhabitants, nor more than twenty-three thousand
inhabitants, exclusive of the towns in such county, in which county is
located a town having a population of not less than thirty-seven hundred
inhabitants, § 15.1-67 shall not be construed to prohibit a physician living
in such county from receiving compensation from the county for medical
services rendered the poor in the rural sections of such county when
employed for such purpose by the proper legal authorities, or from receiv-
ing the statutory fee for serving on a commission to examine a person
alleged to be insane, epileptic or feeble-minded, when duly summoned for
such purpose, notwithstanding the fact that such physician may be a
member of the board of supervisors of such county. And in any county
having an area of more than five hundred square miles and a population
of less than fifteen per square mile according to the United States census
of nineteen hundred and thirty, or any county having a population of not
less than sixteen thousand nor more than sixteen thousand five hundred,
§ 15.1-67 shall not be construed to prohibit an undertaker living in such
county from furnishing caskets for, and preparing for burial, embalming
and burying paupers of such county and receiving compensation therefor
from the county, when requested so to do by the proper legal authorities,
notwithstanding the fact that such undertaker be a member of the board
of supervisors of such county. And in any county having a population of
not less than fifteen thousand nor more than fifteen thousand one hundred
inhabitants, § 15.1-67 shall not be construed to prohibit a wholesale
grocery company, situated in such county, from furnishing and supplying
wholesale grocery items to such county and receiving compensation there-
for from such county, when such wholesale grocery company is the only
such company in such county and when requested so to do by the proper
legal authorities, notwithstanding the fact that a member of the board of
supervisors of such county may be a director or stockholder of such whole-
sale grocery company.

2. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage, not-
withstanding any provision of Chapter 623, Acts of Assembly, 1962, to
the contrary.