                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

TIME ZONE (§ 1-253)

The United States Eastern Standard Time shall be in effect in all parts of the
Commonwealth except during the period when the United States Eastern Daylight
Time shall be in effect as provided by federal law. This section shall not be
construed to be in contravention of federal law, or duly authorized orders of
the United States Secretary of Transportation with respect to the time zones of
the United States and the application of standard time to interstate commerce
and other matters within such zones.
		In all laws, statutes, orders, decrees, rules and regulations relating to the
time of performance of any act by any officer or agency of the Commonwealth, or
any political subdivision thereof, or relating to the time in which any rights
shall accrue or determine, or within which any act shall or shall not be
performed by any person subject to the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth, and in
all public schools, institutions of the Commonwealth or its political
subdivisions, and contracts or choses in action made or to be performed in the
Commonwealth, it shall be understood and intended that the time applicable
thereto or referred to or implied therein shall be the United States Eastern
Standard Time, or the United States Eastern Daylight Time, when and during such
is in effect.

HISTORY: 1946, p. 103; Michie Suppl. 1946, § 5b; 1952, c. 637, § 1-15; 1962,
c. 617; 1964, c. 646; 1966, c. 581; 1988, c. 177; 2005, c. 839.