Chap. 271.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 105 of an act entitled an
act to provide a new charter for the city of Richmond, approved March 24,
1926, as heretofore amended. [H B 369]

Approved March 25, 1936

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion one hundred and five of an act entitled an act to provide a new
charter for the city of Richmond, approved March 24, 1926, as here-
tofore amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 105. There shall be appointed by the city council one
police justice, who shall hold his office for the term of four years,
and until his successor shall be elected and qualified, unless sooner
removed from office. The police justice shall hold daily (Sunday
excepted), in said city, in such place as the city council may provide.
The jurisdiction of the police justice shall extend to all cases arising
within the jurisdictional limits of the city of which a justice of the
peace may take cognizance under the laws of the State, and to all
cases arising under the charter and ordinances of the city.

Provided, however, that there shall be a police court, known as
police court, part two, which shall be held by a police justice within
the former territory of the city of Manchester, for the trial of all
cases, civil and criminal, arising within the limits of the city of Rich-
mond, so far as said limits lie on the south side of James river, and
so far as such cases are properly triable by a police justice, and
within said territory the civil jurisdiction of said police justice of
police court, part two, shall be the same as the civil jurisdiction that
the civil justices of the city of Richmond now exercise or as may be
hereafter conferred upon them, and such police justice of police
court, part two, shall be elected in the same manner and for the same
term as is provided in this charter for the police justice of the city
of Richmond. The police justice and the police justice of police
court, part two, now in office shall continue to serve until the end
of their respective terms, unless sooner removed from office.

Such justices shall have such other powers and jurisdiction as may
be conferred upon them by the city council, not in conflict with the
Constitution and laws of the United States and of the State of Vir-
ginia. The city council may provide for the appointment of such
clerks and officers for said courts of the police justices and make such
rules concerning admission to the court rooms and the maintenance of
good order therein during the sitting of said courts as they may deem
proper. If any person who has been duly summoned as a witness to
attend and give evidence before the said justice, as the case may be,
touching any matter or thing under the charter or any ordinance of the
city shall fail to attend in obedience to said summons, he or she may be
fined at the discretion of said justice, in a sum not exceeding twenty
dollars. That hereafter, at the expiration of the present term of office,
or a vacancy occurring therein, the city council shall elect the civil justice
as provided for in section thirty-one hundred and twelve of the Code of
Virginia.

A clerk to the civil justice court, as provided for in section thirty-
one hundred and eighteen of the Code of Virginia, shall be appointed
by the civil justice and the civil justice number two subject to con-
firmation by the city council,-and should the city council fail within
ten days after the appointment made by the civil justices to confirm
the same, the civil justices shall, within ten days thereafter, appoint
another suitable person and report such appointment to the city
council for confirmation, and the same procedure shall continue until
the city council shall have confirmed the appointment made by the
civil justices, and such clerk shall serve during the term of such civil
justice unless sooner removed by such justices or the city council.

A clerk to the juvenile and domestic relations court, as provided
for in section nineteen hundred and fifty-two of the Code of Vir-
ginia, shall be appointed by the judge of the juvenile and domestic
relations court, subject to confirmation by the city council, and should
the city council fail within ten days after the appointment made by
the judge to confirm the same, the judge shall within ten days there-
after appoint another suitable person and report such appointment to
the city council for confirmation, and the same procedure shall con-
tinue until the city council shall have confirmed the appointment made
by the judge, and such clerk shall serve during the term of such
judge unless sooner removed by such judge or the city council.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its
passage.