CHAPTER 539

An Act to amend and reenact § 24-134, as amended, of the Code of
Virginia, relating to certification of the names of candidates for

office.
[H 584]
Approved March 31, 1964

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 24-184, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, be amended and
reenacted as follows: ;

§ 24-184. The name of any candidate for office who has been nomi-
nated by his party, either by convention, primary or by being declared
the nominee of the party when no primary has been held, shall be certified
not later than ten days after the Tuesday after the second Monday tn July
by the chairman of the party to the State Board of Elections or the clerk
or clerks of the proper court or courts as the case may be, and, when such
name has been certified to such clerk or clerks, the chairman shall also
certify such name to the electoral boards of such cities and counttes in
which the name of such candidate shall appear on the ballot, and no fur-
ther notice of candidacy or petition shall be required; provided that the
failure of a party chairman to make such certificate shall not prevent the
State Board of Elections from declaring that a candidate is the nominee
ar party and directing that his name be treated as certified by the party

rman.