CHAPTER 78

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 1-13.22, 1-13.35 and 1-13.86, as amended,
of the Code of Virginia, all relating to the meaning of the term “popula-
tion” and its effect under certain circumstances. rt 197

Approved March 2, 1966

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 1-32.22, 1-13.85 and 1-13.36, as amended, of the Code of Vir-
ginia be amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 1-13.22. The word “population” used in this Code or in any act
of the General Assembly with reference to any county, city, town or
political subdivision of the State or any combination thereof, unless the
context clearly indicates some other meaning, shall be construed to mean
the population of such county, city, town, political subdivision or com-
bination as shown by the United States census latest preceding the time
at which any provision dependent upon population is being applied, or
the time as of which it is being construed, to the end that there will be such
flexibility as will constitute the word of general and variable, instead of
special and invariable, significance; provided, however, that where two or
more political subdivisions are consolidated, the population of the consoli-
dated county or city or other political subdivision shall be the combined
population of the consolidating subdivisions, under the last preceding
United States census.

§ 1-13.35. “ Whenever any county, city, town or political subdi-
vision of the State or any combination thereof is identified by population
classification in any statute heretofore or hereafter enacted, such statute
shall continue to apply to such county, city, town, political subdivision
or combination notwithstanding any subsequent change in population and
shall cease to so apply only upon the subsequent enactment by the General
Assembly of a measure in which such intent is clearly stated. All actions
of any such county, city or town or political subdivision of the State or
any combination thereof, and of the officers thereof and of the clerks
of courts thereof in the operation of their respective offices either on
a fee or salary basis for the calendar year of nineteen hundred sixty-one,
and until March thirty, nineteen hundred sixty-two, under any such act
of Assembly or provision of the Code of Virginia enacted prior to July
one, nineteen hundred sixty, are hereby ratified, validated and confirmed.
Nothing in this paragraph shall operate to prevent the application of
any such * statute to any county, city or town or political subdivision of
the State or any combination thereof, falling within the population classi-
fication therein prescribed.

§ 1-13.36. The provisions of § 1-13.35 shall not appl nf to, or limit,
the distribution of any State funds, grants-in-aid, or other allocation
from the State treasury, to any county, city, town or other political sub-
division of the State. *