24.2-446 - Reconstruction of destroyed registration records.
§ 24.2-446. Reconstruction of destroyed registration records.
Whenever the registration records of a county or city have been destroyed byfire or otherwise, the State Board shall provide substitute activeregistration records obtained from the Virginia voter registration system.
For active registration records not retrievable from the system, the generalregistrar shall give notice that he is reconstructing such records by postingthe notice at ten places in the jurisdiction or publishing it once in anewspaper having general circulation in the jurisdiction.
In the reconstruction, the registrar shall place on the registration recordsthe names of all voters known by him who have been previously registered, orwho can show by evidence satisfactory to the registrar that their names wereon the old records and who still reside in the county or city.
(Code 1950, § 24-91; 1970, c. 462, § 24.1-58; 1993, c. 641.)