                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

CONTINUANCE OR TIME FOR FILING PLEADING, ETC., WHERE PARTY OR ATTORNEY IS
CONNECTED WITH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OR DIVISION OF LEGISLATIVE SERVICES (§ 30-5)

Any party to an action or proceeding in any court, including the Court of
Appeals and the Supreme Court of Virginia, commission or other tribunal having
judicial or quasi-judicial powers or jurisdiction who is an officer, employee or
member or member-elect of the General Assembly or employee of the Division of
Legislative Services, or who has, prior to or during the session of the General
Assembly, employed or retained to represent him in such action or proceeding an
attorney who is or becomes an officer, employee or member or member-elect of the
General Assembly or employee of the Division of Legislative Services, shall be
entitled to a continuance as a matter of right (i) during the period beginning
30 days prior to the commencement of the session and ending 30 days after the
adjournment thereof, and (ii) during a period beginning one day prior to the
meeting date of any reconvened or veto session or of any commission, council,
committee or subcommittee created by the General Assembly at which such officer,
employee or member is scheduled to attend and ending one day after the
adjournment of such meeting; however, no continuance need be granted under
clause (ii) unless it shall have been requested in writing at least three days
prior to the first day for which the continuance is sought and filed with the
court. The requesting party, when practicable, shall strive to notify all other
parties to the proceeding of such request.
		Any pleading or the performance of any act relating thereto required to be
filed or performed by any statute or rule during the period beginning 30 days
prior to the commencement of the session and ending 30 days after the
adjournment of the session shall be extended until not less than 30 days after
any such session. The failure of any court, commission or other tribunal to
allow such continuance when requested so to do or the returning of such filing
or act during the period hereinabove specified shall constitute reversible
error; provided that this section shall not prevent the granting of temporary
injunctive relief, or the dissolution or extension of a temporary injunction,
but the right to such relief shall remain in the sound discretion of the court
or other such tribunal.

HISTORY: Code 1919, § 298; 1926, p. 18; 1934, p. 370; 1940, p. 363; 1952, c.
234; 1960, c. 147; 1973, cc. 242, 322; 1984, c. 703; 1987, c. 192; 2002, cc.
584, 617; 2012, c. 394.