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Since 1953, the General Assembly has revised the code on a title-by-title basis rather than enacting entirely new revisions of the code as it had in the past. Volumes are also periodically recompiled and reissued, which has occurred over a hundred times each of the original volumes of the Code of 1950 has been split at least once into separate parts. The pocket parts were originally issued biennially, and then annually once the General Assembly began meeting every year in 1970. "Pocket part" supplements- stapled paper updates literally stuck in a cover pocket of the hardcover volumes-are printed annually.

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The Virginia Code Commission is required to update the printed Code of Virginia at the end of each regular session of the General Assembly prior to the date new statutes and amendments become effective. It may also omit provisions "which, in the judgment of the Commission, are inappropriate in a code, such as emergency clauses, clauses providing for specific nonrecurring appropriations and general repealing clauses." Such changes include correcting "unmistakable printer's errors," misspellings, and erroneous cross-references, and updating obsolete references to renamed code titles, governmental officers and agencies. It also has the independent authority to make minor changes to the code without ratification by the General Assembly.

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The Commission has full discretion to publish the code with or without annotations, "to fix the number of volumes and to decide all questions of form, makeup and arrangement, including title pages, prefaces, annotations, indices, tables of contents and reference, appendices, paper, type, binding and lettering."

The Virginia Director of the Division of Legislative Services.

The Virginia Attorney General (or an assistant Attorney General by his designation).

One former member of the House of Delegates, appointed by the Speaker to a four-year term.

One former member of the Senate, appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules to a four-year term.

Two former or present Virginia Circuit Court judges, appointed by the governor for four-year terms.

Two present members of the Virginia House of Delegates appointed by the Speaker of the House for the length of their elected term.

Two present members of the Virginia Senate, by the appointment of the Senate Committee on Rules for the length of their elected term.

The Commission is composed of ten members, chosen by statute from the following: Though the Commission may arrange for the code to be published directly by and at the expense of the Commonwealth of Virginia, since 1950 it has contracted the task of printing the code out to the Michie Company. It also has responsibility for publishing the Virginia Administrative Code and Rules of Evidence, as well as Virginia State Bar advisory opinions and Virginia compacts, which it may incorporate into the code. Originally created in 1946 as the Commission on Code Recodification to prepare what became the Code of 1950, the Virginia Code Commission was made a permanent part of the state's legislative branch and given the responsibility for publishing and maintaining the code. Individual preparers, however, may obtain rights over case annotations, indices, and various notes concerning sections and reference tables they have written. The government of Virginia claims copyright over the Code, including the text of statutes.

The first volume of the Code of Virginia also prints the Virginia Constitution and the Constitution of the United States. The statutes are fully annotated by Virginia attorneys, and include cites to and summaries of Virginia state and federal court decisions as well as law reviews.

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The Virginia government also makes the code available without annotations for free on the internet.Īs of 2008, the printed Code of Virginia consists of twenty-nine hardcover volumes, with a two-volume subject matter index that is replaced annually. West's Annotated Code of Virginia is an unofficial, competing version issued by West Publishing, which includes more cross-references and West keynumbers. The official version of the Code of Virginia is published by the Michie Company under contract with the Virginia Code Commission, the governmental body responsible for printing and maintaining the code.

5 The Code and the Virginia Constitution.