CHAPTER 646

An Act to amend and reenact § 1-15, as amended, of the Code of Virginia,
relating to standard Eastern time applying at certain times of the
year in certain parts of the State.

[H 279]

Approved April 1, 1964

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 1-15, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 1-15. On and after Memorial Day, nineteen hundred sixty-two,
United States standard Eastern time shall be in effect in all parts of the
State of Virginia except * during the period beginning on the first Sunday
after Memorial Day and ending on the Sunday next preceding Labor Day
of each year when daylight saving time shall be in effect; provided, how-
ever, that nothing in this section shall be so construed as to be in contra-
vention of federal law, or duly authorized orders of the Interstate Com-
merce Commission with respect to the time zones of the United States and
the application of standard time to interstate commerce and other matters
within such zones; provided, further, that any county, city or town, located
within the Tenth Congressional District, may by ordinance, duly adopted,
establish daylight saving time to be effective between the last Sunday in
April and the last Sunday in October of each year; provided further that in
any city located partly within and partly without this Commonwealth
where the remaining portion of said city is located in a state which by law
prohibits daylight saving time, the council of the said ay may direct that
Eastern standard time shall be used in said city, until said adjoining state
adopts daylight saving time; provided, further, that in any county having
a population of more than twenty-five thousand eight hundred twenty but
less than twenty-five thousand nine hundred, and in any county having a
population of more than forty-three thousand but less than forty-four
thousand, and in any county having a population of more than twenty
thousand but less than twenty thousand two hundred thirty, and in any
county having a population of more than twenty-five thousand seven hun-
dred but less than twenty-five thousand eight hundred twenty, and in any
county having a population of more than twenty-six thousand but less than
twenty-seven thousand, and in any county having a population of more
than thirty-one thousand fifty, but less than thirty-one thousand one
hundred, and in any county having a population of more than thirty-six
thousand but less than thirty-seven thousand, and in any county having a
population of more than thirty-eight thousand, but less than forty thou-
sand, and in any city having a population of more than five thousand
but less than five thousand one hundred, the governing body of such
county or city may direct that standard Eastern time shall be used in such
county or city.

In all laws, statutes, orders, decrees, rules and regulations relating to
the time of performance of any act by any officer or agency of the Com-
monwealth, or any political subdivision thereof, or relating to the time in
which any rights shall accrue or determine, or within which any act shall
or shall not be performed by any person subject to the jurisdiction of the
Commonwealth, and in all public schools, and in all institutions of the
Commonwealth or its political subdivisions, and in all contracts or choses
in action made or to be performed in the Commonwealth, it shall be under-
stood and intended that the time applicable thereto or referred to or im-
plied therein shall be United States standard Eastern time, or daylight
saving time, when and during such is in effect.

2. Anemergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.