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This law was first created in 1952. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 506 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1952 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 1998, chapter 872<\/a>.<\/p>","references":[{"id":56703,"section_number":"17.1-704","catch_line":"Expenses; Secretary and assistants; printing","order_by":null,"url":"\/17.1-704\/"}],"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":163545,"object_type":"law","relational_id":58074,"identifier":"17.1-315","token":"17.1\/3\/1\/17.1-315","url":"\/17.1-315\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/17.1-315\/","token":"17.1\/3\/1\/17.1-315","dublin_core":{"Title":"Duties of Executive Secretary","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 17.1-315","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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