24.2-670 - Clerk to send for books and ballots if not delivered by officers. - Virginia Statutes

§ 24.2-670. Clerk to send for books and ballots if not delivered by officers.

If the officers of election fail to deliver the materials to the clerk of thecircuit court, or to the principal office of the general registrar, asrequired by § 24.2-668 before the time for the electoral board to meet andopen the returns, the clerk of the circuit court shall dispatch, to obtainsuch returns, a law-enforcement officer, who shall be subject to the samepenalties and entitled to the same compensation as an officer of election forsuch service.

(Code 1950, § 24-269; 1970, c. 462, § 24.1-145; 1993, c. 641; 1995, c. 197.)