Va. Code Ann. § 1-240

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Repeal not to revive former act

Official statutory text

When an act of the General Assembly that has repealed another act shall itself be repealed, the previous act shall not be revived without express words to that effect, unless the act repealing it be passed during the same session.

Code 1919, § 7, § 1-17; 2005, c. 839 .

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