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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>358476</law_id><section_number>30-149</section_number><catch_line>Authority for minor changes to the Code of Virginia</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2026/" slug="2026" current="TRUE" last_updated="2026-08-02">2026</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="73" identifier="30">General Assembly</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="20" identifier="15">Virginia Code Commission</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The Commission may correct unmistakable printer&#x2019;s errors, misspellings and other unmistakable errors in the <span class="dictionary">statutes</span> as incorporated into the Code of Virginia, and may make consequential changes in the titles of officers and agencies, and other purely consequential changes made necessary by the use in the <span class="dictionary">statutes</span> of titles, terminology and references, or other language no longer appropriate.</p><p>The Commission may renumber, rename, and rearrange any Code of Virginia titles, chapters, articles, and sections in the <span class="dictionary">statutes</span> adopted, and make corresponding changes in lists of chapter, article, and section headings, catchlines, and tables, when, in the <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> of the Commission, it is necessary because of any disturbance or interruption of orderly or consecutive arrangement.</p><p>The Commission may correct unmistakable errors in cross-references to Code of Virginia sections and may change cross-references to Code of Virginia sections which have become outdated or incorrect due to subsequent amendment to, revision, or repeal of the sections to which reference is made.</p><p>The Commission may omit from the <span class="dictionary">statutes</span> incorporated into the Code of Virginia provisions which, in the <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> of the Commission, are inappropriate in a code, such as emergency clauses, clauses providing for specific nonrecurring appropriations and general repealing clauses.</p></section></text><history>1983, c. 260, &#xA7; 9-77.10; 1992, c. 216; 2001, c. 844.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
