CHAPTER 581

An Act to amend and reenact § 1-15, as amended, of the Code of Virginia,
relating to Eastern Standard and Daylight Saving Time. H 181]
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Approved April 5, 1966

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 * the last Sunday in April, nineteen hundred
sixty- * siz, United States standard Eastern time shall be in effect in all
parts of the State of Virginia except during the period beginning on the
* last Sunday * in April and ending on the last Sunday * in October of each
year when daylight saving time shall be in effect; provided, however, that
nothing in this section shall be so construed as to be in contravention of
federal law, or duly authorized orders of the Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion 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 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 city 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 all cities and towns within
the boundaries of 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 hundred 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 thousand, 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 understood
and intended that the time applicable thereto or referred to or implied
therein shall be United States standard Eastern time, or daylight saving
time, when and during such is in effect.