An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
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Volume | 1914 |
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Law Number | 325 |
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Chap. 325.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3533 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 5, 1912, in
relation to when certain officers not to be paid, fees in criminal cases.
Allowances in lieu of fees in serving process in criminal caseg in cities,
etc., etc. (H. B. 385.)
: Approved March 27, 1914.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section thirty-five hundred and thirty-three of the Code of Vir-
ginia as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March fifth,
nineteen hundred and twelve, in relation to when certain officers
not to be paid fees in criminal cases. Allowances in lieu of fees
in serving process in criminal cases in cities, et cetera, et cetera,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
Sec. 3538. No justice, constable, sergeant, captain or sergeant
of police who receives a salary or allowance for general service
out of the treasury of his county, city, or corporation shall receive
any fees for services in a criminal case from the State, city, or
county, but all such fees to said officers shall be paid by the party
against whom judgment is rendered; but the judge of any city or
corporation court may make an allowance not exceeding two hun-
dred dollars a year to each of two constables, sergeants, or police-
nien of such city or corporation, to be paid in lieu of all fees for
serving criminal process of any kind, which allowance shall be
paid cut of the treasury; provided that when any incorporated
communities have become cities of the second class under the act
approved March ten, nineteen hundred and ten, entitled an act to
provide for the organization and government of incorporated com-
munities which shall become hereafter cities of the second class, as
provided by law, then the allowances above provided for shall be
made by the said circuit court of the said city; provided, that the
provisions of this section shall not prevent the sheriff of a county.
or the sergeant of a city from being paid out of the treasury of the
State the fee for receiving a person in jail when first committed
authorized by section thirty-five hundred and thirty-two of the
Code to be paid the jailer, the sheriff of a county and the sergeant
of a city being by the provisions of section nineteen hundred and
_ thirty-four of the Code the keeper of the jail (i. e., the jailer) ;
and provided, further, should there at this time be accounts for
commital fees due city sergeants which have not been paid by the
auditor of public accounts he is hereby authorized and directed to
pay the same out of the appropriation made for the payment of
criminal charges.