                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

ENROLLMENT OF ACT TO CODIFY THE LAWS; PRINTING AND DISTRIBUTION (§ 30-14.1)

The provisions of § 30-14, concerning the manner and method of enrollment of
the acts of the General Assembly shall not apply to an act to codify the laws of
the Commonwealth. In the case of such legislation the bill itself or a copy
thereof, with all amendments to such bill, if any there be, incorporated
therein, or with such amendments or copies thereof attached to or accompanying
such bill or copy of such bill, shall be taken and preserved as the enrolled
bill. If any such amendments are actually incorporated in the bill, or copy of
the bill, they may be so incorporated in such manner and by such method as the
Clerk of the House of Delegates deems most practicable, except that the Clerk
shall not, in order to accomplish such incorporation, require the entire bill to
be reprinted, or require any portion of the bill to be reprinted which is not
affected by any amendment. Such bill or copy, with the amendments or copies of
the amendments as a part of the bill or copy thereof, as made up by the Clerk in
accordance with this section, shall be signed by the presiding officers of the
Senate and House of Delegates and sent in such form to the Governor for his
approval.

The Clerk of the House of Delegates, as Keeper of the Rolls of the Commonwealth,
shall not be required to furnish to anyone a copy of an act to codify the laws
of the Commonwealth, nor to prepare such an act for publication, nor to furnish
to the Comptroller the manuscript of such an act, or any copy thereof. Nor shall
the Clerk of the House of Delegates or the Comptroller be required to print,
publish or distribute an act to codify the laws of the Commonwealth, as other
acts and the joint resolutions of the General Assembly are printed, published or
distributed; unless it should be provided in the act to codify the laws, as
adopted, that some titles, chapters, articles or sections thereof shall take
effect in advance of the remainder of the act, in which event such titles,
chapters, articles, and sections of the act, with all amendments which affect
them actually incorporated therein, shall be printed and distributed as are
other acts of Assembly, but may be separately printed and bound. The Comptroller
shall, however, cause to be done any printing that the Clerk of the House of
Delegates requires to be done as a part of the process of incorporation of
amendments to any bill to codify the laws of the Commonwealth.

HISTORY: 1948, p. 587.