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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapters <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?941+ful+CHAP0857\">857<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?941+ful+CHAP0937\">937<\/a> 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. It has been modified 2 times. 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. Those modifications are as follows: in 2001, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?011+ful+CHAP0844\">844<\/a>; in 2015, chapters <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?151+ful+CHAP0763\">763<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?151+ful+CHAP0777\">777<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":172153,"object_type":"law","relational_id":57501,"identifier":"2.2-424","token":"2.2\/I\/A\/4\/3\/2.2-424","url":"\/2.2-424\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/2.2-424\/","token":"2.2\/I\/A\/4\/3\/2.2-424","dublin_core":{"Title":"Registration fees","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 2.2-424","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>The <span class=\"dictionary\">Secretary<\/span> shall collect an annual registration fee of $100 from the lobbyist for each <span class=\"dictionary\">principal<\/span> for whom, or on whose behalf, the lobbyist will act. 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