CHAPTER 436

An Act to amend and reenact § 16.1-148.2 of the Code of Virginia, re-
lating to the style, jurisdiction, hearings, personnel and furnishing
of regional juvenile and domestic relations courts.

[H 233]

Approved April 2, 1968

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 16.1-143.2 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
as follows:

§ 16.1-143.2. Whenever a regional juvenile and domestic relations
court is established it shall be known as (first, second, etc.) regional juve-
nile and domestic relations court (numerical order being assigned in the
order of establishment thereof). Such court shall be known in each county
or city it serves as the juvenile and domestic relations court for the (city
or county) of (name of city or county), and shall have and exercise
exclusively within such city or county the same authority, power and
jurisdiction as other juvenile and domestic relations courts established
under Chapter 8 of Title 16.1 of the 1950 Code of Virginia, as amended.

Hearings shall be conducted in the city or county wherein the offense
occurs except that when the offense occurs in a county, the hearing may be
conducted in a participating city which is geographically located in the
county wherein the offense occurred. The judge of the court wherein a
matter is heard or is to be heard may enter any order or decree of his court
at any place and time. In each participating city or county, a clerk’s office
shall be kept open during the same hours as clerk’s offices for courts not of
record are kept open; provided, however, that if a participating city is
geographically located in a participating county and is also the county seat,
then, in the discretion of the judge of the regional juvenile and domestic
relations court, a combined clerks’ office for such city and county may be
established in lieu of separate clerk’s offices for such county and city. The
clerk or deputy clerk of the juvenile and domestic relations court may be
the same person as the clerk or deputy clerk of any other court in said city
or county. The governing body of each participating city or county shall
provide such suitable quarters, furniture and utilities, including a tele-
phone, as may be necessary for the operation of said court in said city or
county. All other office equipment and supplies, including postage, shall
be furnished by the State and shall be paid out of the appropriation for
criminal charges.