30-149 - Authority for minor changes to the Code of Virginia. - Virginia Statutes

§ 30-149. Authority for minor changes to the Code of Virginia.

The Commission may correct unmistakable printer's errors, misspellings andother unmistakable errors in the statutes as incorporated into the Code ofVirginia, and may make consequential changes in the titles of officers andagencies, and other purely consequential changes made necessary by the use inthe statutes of titles, terminology and references, or other language nolonger appropriate.

The Commission may renumber, rename, and rearrange any Code of Virginiatitles, chapters, articles, and sections in the statutes adopted, and makecorresponding changes in lists of chapter, article, and section headings,catchlines, and tables, when, in the judgment of the Commission, it isnecessary because of any disturbance or interruption of orderly orconsecutive arrangement.

The Commission may correct unmistakable errors in cross-references to Code ofVirginia sections and may change cross-references to Code of Virginiasections which have become outdated or incorrect due to subsequent amendmentto, revision, or repeal of the sections to which reference is made.

The Commission may omit from the statutes incorporated into the Code ofVirginia provisions which, in the judgment of the Commission, areinappropriate in a code, such as emergency clauses, clauses providing forspecific nonrecurring appropriations and general repealing clauses.

(1983, c. 260, § 9-77.10; 1992, c. 216; 2001, c. 844.)