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2022 SESSION
22103195DBe it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 1-253 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 1-253. Time zone.
The United States Eastern Standard Time shall be in effect in
all parts of the Commonwealth except
during the period when the United States Eastern Daylight Time shall be in
effect as provided by federal law at
all times. The
Commonwealth, and all political subdivisions
thereof, shall not observe daylight saving time and shall be exempt from the
daylight saving time provisions of the federal Uniform
Time Act of 1966 (15 U.S.C. § 260a(a)). This section shall not be construed to be in
contravention of (i) federal
law, or ; (ii) duly authorized orders
of the United States Secretary of Transportation with respect to the time zones
of the United States and the application of standard time to interstate
commerce and other matters within such zones;
or (iii) the time for performance of an act by an officer or department
of the United States as established by statute, order, rule, or regulation of
the United States or an agency thereof.
In all laws, statutes, orders, decrees, rules, and regulations relating to
the time of performance of any act by any officer or agency of the
Commonwealth, or any political subdivision thereof, or relating to the time in
which any rights shall accrue or determine, or within which any act shall or
shall not be performed by any person subject to the jurisdiction of the
Commonwealth, and in all public schools, institutions of the Commonwealth or
its political subdivisions, and contracts or choses in action made or to be
performed in the Commonwealth, it shall be understood and intended that the
time applicable thereto or referred to or implied therein shall be the United
States Eastern Standard Time, or the United
States Eastern Daylight Time, when and during such is in effect.