CHAPTER 385

An Act to amend and reenact § 17-27, as amended, of the Code of Virginia,
relating to method of preserving and signing court proceedings,
orders and decrees.

[S 363]

Approved April 1, 1966

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

l. That § 17-27, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 17-27. The proceedings of every court shall be entered in a book
kept for the purpose to be known as the order book. After being cor-
rected when it is necessary the record shall be signed by the presiding
judge. In the event of the judge of a court dying, retiring, or resigning,
heretofore or hereafter, without having signed all of the orders or de-
crees endorsed by him for entry and entered in the order books of the
court by the clerk thereof, it shall be lawful for either the judge appointed
to fill the vacancy caused by such death, retirement, or resignation, or any
judge appointed to preside over the court until such vacancy is filled, to
sign such of the orders or decrees so entered of record as had not been
signed by the judge who endorsed them for entry; and when so signed, they
shall be of the same force and effect as if they had been signed by such
judge in his lifetime.

An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.