VIRGINIA LAW PORTAL

• Code of Virginia
• Virginia Administrative Code
• Constitution of Virginia
• Charters
• Authorities
• Compacts
• Uncodified Acts
• RIS Users (account required)

SEARCHABLE DATABASES

• Bills & Resolutions
  session legislation
• Bill Summaries
  session summaries
• Reports to the General Assembly
  House and Senate documents
• Legislative Liaisons
  State agency contacts

ACROSS SESSIONS

• Subject Index: Since 1995
• Bills & Resolutions: Since 1994
• Summaries: Since 1994

Developed and maintained by the Division of Legislative Automated Systems.

2002 SESSION

• history | hilite | pdf | print version

VIRGINIA ACTS OF ASSEMBLY -- CHAPTER An Act to authorize the posting of the National Motto in certain local government administrative buildings in the Commonwealth. [H 106] Approved

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. Each board of supervisors of any county and each city or town council in the Commonwealth may prominently post the National Motto, "’In God We Trust,’ the National Motto, enacted by Congress in 1956”, in a conspicuous place in the primary local government administrative building of the jurisdiction for all citizens to read.

The Office of the Attorney General shall intervene on behalf of local governments and shall provide legal defense of the provisions of this section.

2. Any board of supervisors or city or town council may, at its discretion, accept contributions in cash or in-kind from any person, as defined in § 1-13.19, to defray the costs of implementing this provision.