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It has been modified 3 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 1975, chapter 84; in 1977, chapter 617; in 1988, chapter 674.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":1505211,"object_type":"law","relational_id":377466,"identifier":"8.01-498","token":"8.01\/18\/4\/8.01-498","url":"\/8.01-498\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/8.01-498\/","token":"8.01\/18\/4\/8.01-498","dublin_core":{"Title":"Selling officers and employees not to bid or to purchase","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 8.01-498","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>No officer of any city, town, county or constitutional officer or employee of any such city, town, county or constitutional office shall, directly or indirectly, bid on or purchase effects sold under a <span class=\"dictionary\">writ<\/span> by such officer. 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