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1999 SESSION


CHAPTER 120
An Act to amend and reenact § 24.2-922 of the Code of Virginia, relating to filing of campaign finance disclosure reports as condition to qualification for office.
[H 1863]
Approved March 16, 1999

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 24.2-922 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 24.2-922. Reports as condition to qualification for office.

A. No person shall be permitted to qualify for any office, enter upon the duties thereof, or receive any salary or emoluments therefrom until he has filed the reports required in subdivisions 3 through 9 of § 24.2-916; subdivisions 1, 2 and 3 of § 24.2-917; and subdivisions B 1 and B 3 of § 24.2-918, as applicable. No officer authorized by the laws of this Commonwealth to issue certificates of election shall issue one to any person determined to be elected to any such office, until copies of the reports cited above have been filed as required in this article.

B. Notwithstanding the requirements of subsection A, a person who is elected to fill a vacancy at a special election held on a general election day may qualify for the office and be issued a certificate of election in advance of filing the postelection report required to be filed under subdivision 9 of § 24.2-916 in the case of a November election, or under subdivision 3 of § 24.2-917 in the case of a May election, upon the filing of a postelection report complete through the election day.