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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 247 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 1983 \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 2001, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?011+ful+CHAP0844\">844<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":176299,"object_type":"law","relational_id":62975,"identifier":"2.2-3309","token":"2.2\/II\/A\/33\/2.2-3309","url":"\/2.2-3309\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/2.2-3309\/","token":"2.2\/II\/A\/33\/2.2-3309","dublin_core":{"Title":"Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 2.2-3309","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>The seventh day of December of each year shall be designated as Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day in the Commonwealth in special tribute to those members of our armed forces who lost their lives, and also to those who survived, the attack on Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii, December 7, 1941. 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Upon this date, in\nperpetuity, all citizens of the Commonwealth and the nation are urged to pay\nhomage to the members of our armed forces for the manner in which they bore the\nattack.\n\nHISTORY: 1983, c. 247, \u00a7 2.1-27.2; 2001, c. 844.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}