Code of Virginia
Chapter 2.1 - Common Law and Rules of Construction
§ 1-253. Time zone

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.
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.

Structure Code of Virginia

Code of Virginia

Title 1 - General Provisions

Chapter 2.1 - Common Law and Rules of Construction

§ 1-200. The common law

§ 1-201. Acts of Parliament

§ 1-202. General rule of construction

§ 1-203. Adult

§ 1-204. Age of majority

§ 1-205. Bond with surety

§ 1-206. Certified mail equivalent to registered mail; certain subsequent mail or notice may be sent by regular mail

§ 1-207. Child; juvenile; minor; infant

§ 1-208. City

§ 1-208.1. Carbon-free energy; clean energy

§ 1-209. Collegial body

§ 1-210. Computation of time

§ 1-211. Constitutional references

§ 1-211.1. (Effective until July 1, 2024) Courthouse; posting of notices

§ 1-211.1. (Effective July 1, 2024) Courthouse; posting of notices

§ 1-212. Courts of record

§ 1-213. Delegation of duties assigned to political subdivision

§ 1-214. Effective dates

§ 1-215. Ex officio

§ 1-216. Gender

§ 1-217. Headlines of sections

§ 1-218. Includes

§ 1-219. Land; real estate

§ 1-219.1. Limitations on eminent domain

§ 1-220. Local ordinances incorporating state law by reference

§ 1-221. Locality

§ 1-222. Majority authority

§ 1-222.1. Manufacturer

§ 1-223. Month; year

§ 1-224. Municipality; incorporated communities; municipal corporation

§ 1-225. Nonlegislative citizen member

§ 1-226. Notary

§ 1-227. Number

§ 1-228. Oath

§ 1-229. Optional form of county government; effect of change in form

§ 1-230. Person

§ 1-231. When "person" includes business trust and limited liability company

§ 1-232. Person under disability

§ 1-233. Personal estate

§ 1-234. Personal representative

§ 1-235. Population; inhabitants

§ 1-236. Population classifications

§ 1-237. Process

§ 1-238. Reenacted

§ 1-239. Repeal not to affect liabilities; mitigation of punishment

§ 1-240. Repeal not to revive former act

§ 1-240.1. Rights of parents

§ 1-241. Seal

§ 1-242. Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections

§ 1-243. Severability

§ 1-244. Short title citations

§ 1-245. State

§ 1-246. Stricken language or italics

§ 1-247. Summaries of legislation

§ 1-248. Supremacy of federal and state law

§ 1-249. Supreme Court

§ 1-250. Swear; sworn

§ 1-251. Systems of state highways

§ 1-252. Tier-city

§ 1-253. Time zone

§ 1-254. Town

§ 1-255. United States

§ 1-256. Weights and measurements; metric equivalents

§ 1-257. Written; writing; in writing