CODE OF VIRGINIA

RECONSTRUCTION OF DESTROYED REGISTRATION RECORDS (§ 24.2-446)

Whenever the registration records of a county or city have been destroyed by
fire or otherwise, the Department shall provide substitute active registration
records obtained from the Virginia voter registration system.For active
registration records not retrievable from the system, the general registrar
shall give notice that he is reconstructing such records by posting the notice
at ten places in the jurisdiction or publishing it once in a newspaper having
general circulation in the jurisdiction.In the reconstruction, the registrar
shall place on the registration records the names of all voters known by him who
have been previously registered, or who can show by evidence satisfactory to the
registrar that their names were on the old records and who still reside in the
county or city.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 24-91; 1970, c. 462, § 24.1-58; 1993, c. 641; 2015, c.
740.