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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 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":[{"id":86360,"section_number":"2.2-3101","catch_line":"Definitions","order_by":null,"url":"\/2.2-3101\/"},{"id":61543,"section_number":"24.2-101","catch_line":"Definitions","order_by":null,"url":"\/24.2-101\/"}],"permalink":{"id":172197,"object_type":"law","relational_id":57870,"identifier":"2.2-435","token":"2.2\/I\/A\/4\/3\/2.2-435","url":"\/2.2-435\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/2.2-435\/","token":"2.2\/I\/A\/4\/3\/2.2-435","dublin_core":{"Title":"Prohibition for state party chairman","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 2.2-435","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>The chairman or any full-time paid employee of a state political <span class=\"dictionary\">party<\/span>, as defined in \u00a7&nbsp;<a class=\"law\" title=\"Definitions\" href=\"\/24.2-101\/\">24.2-101<\/a>, or a member of his <span class=\"dictionary\">immediate family<\/span>, as defined in \u00a7&nbsp;<a class=\"law\" title=\"Definitions\" href=\"\/2.2-3101\/\">2.2-3101<\/a>, shall not be employed as a lobbyist by any <span class=\"dictionary\">principal<\/span>.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nPROHIBITION FOR STATE PARTY CHAIRMAN (\u00a7 2.2-435)\n\nThe chairman or any full-time paid employee of a state political party, as\ndefined in \u00a7 24.2-101, or a member of his immediate family, as defined in \u00a7\n2.2-3101, shall not be employed as a lobbyist by any principal.\n\nHISTORY: 1994, cc. 857, 937, \u00a7 2.1-794; 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}}