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§ 1-2 Effective date of Code

All the provisions of this Code shall be in force on and after February 1, 1950, except as provided in § 1-2.1.

History

The record of this law’s original creation isn’t available online. The oldest record of it is its appearance in the Code of Virginia of 1919, as § 6567. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by “The Acts of Assembly,” a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly’s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 1948, when it was recompiled as § 1-2.

Code 1919, § 6567; R. P. 1948, § 1-2.

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