CHAPTER 650

An Act to amend and reenact § 16.1-148.2 of the Code of Virgunia,
relating to regional juvenile and domestic relations courts, jurisdic-
tion and operations thereof.

[S 295]

Approved April 5, 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. Same; style, power and jurisdiction; hearings; clerk or
deputy clerk; quarters, equipment and supplies—Whenever a regional
juvenile and domestic relations court is established it shall be known as
(first, second, etc.) regional juvenile and domestic relations court (numer-
ical 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 the same authority, power and juris-
diction 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 hearing may be
conducted in a participating city which 1s geographically located in the
county wherein the offense occurred, but 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 par-
ticipating 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 telephone, 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.

2. Anemergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.