                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

COMPUTATION OF TIME (§ 1-210)

A. When an act of the General Assembly or rule of court requires that an act be
performed a prescribed amount of time before a motion or proceeding, the day of
such motion or proceeding shall not be counted against the time allowed, but the
day on which such act is performed may be counted as part of the time. When an
act of the General Assembly or rule of court requires that an act be performed
within a prescribed amount of time after any event or judgment, the day on which
the event or judgment occurred shall not be counted against the time allowed.

B. When the last day for performing an act during the course of a judicial
proceeding falls on a Saturday, Sunday, legal holiday, or any day or part of a
day on which the clerk&#8217;s office is closed as authorized by an act of the
General Assembly, the act may be performed on the next day that is not a
Saturday, Sunday, legal holiday, or day or part of a day on which the
clerk&#8217;s office is closed as authorized by an act of the General Assembly.

C. When an act of the General Assembly specifies a maximum period of time in
which a legal action may be brought and the last day of that period falls on a
Saturday, Sunday, legal holiday, or day or part of a day on which the
clerk&#8217;s office is closed as authorized by an act of the General Assembly,
the action may be brought on the next day that is not a Saturday, Sunday, legal
holiday, or day or part of a day on which the clerk&#8217;s office is closed as
authorized by an act of the General Assembly.

D. Any court or proceeding authorized to be adjourned from day to day shall not
be required to meet on a Sunday or legal holiday.

E. When an act of the General Assembly or local governing body, order of the
court, or administrative regulation or order requires, either by specification
of a date or by a prescribed period of time, that an act be performed or an
action be filed on a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday or on any day or part of
a day on which the state or local government office where the act to be
performed or the action to be filed is closed, the act may be performed or the
action may be filed on the next business day that is not a Saturday, Sunday,
legal holiday, or day on which the state or local government office is closed.

F. For the purposes of this section, any day on which the Governor authorizes
the closing of the state government shall be considered a legal holiday.

HISTORY: Code 1919, § 5; 1932, p. 24; Code 1950, § 1-13; 1950, pp. 21, 23,
§§ 1-13.3, 1-13.27; 1962, cc. 104, 284, § 1-13.3:1; 1977, c. 93; 1986, c.
166; 1987, c. 92; 2005, c. 839; 2008, c. 816; 2010, c. 96; 2014, c. 596.