Chap. 298.—An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to chapter 124
thereof a new section numbered 3105-a, prescribing the conditions upon which
warrants or other process, issued upon certain claims or causes of action of
which civil and police justices are given jurisdiction, may be made returnable
before such justices; and providing that such warrants or other process may
be directed to a constable, sheriff or sergeant of any county or city wherein
the defendant resides or may be found, and prescribing in what instances such
warrants may be served in a county or corporation other than that in which
the action is brought. [H B 448]

Approved March 26, 1936

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That the
Code of Virginia be amended by adding to chapter one hundred and
twenty-four a new section numbered thirty-one hundred and five-a,
which new section shall read as follows:

Section 3105-a. Any warrant or other process issued upon any
claim or cause or action of which a civil and police justice is given
jurisdiction by sub-sections (b) and (d) of section thirty-one hundred
and two, may be made returnable before such civil and police justice
if the defendant, or one of them if there be more than one defendant,
resides, or is regularly employed, or has his regular place of business
in such city, or if the cause of action or any part thereof arose there-
in; and any such warrant or other process may be directed to a con-
stable, sheriff or sergeant or any county or city wherein the defendant
resides or may be found; but no such warrant shall be served or
executed in any other county or city than that wherein the action is
brought, unless it be (a) an action against a corporation, (b) an
action upon a bond taken by an officer under authority of some
statute, (c) an action to recover damages for a wrong, (d) an action
against two or more defendants on one of whom such warrant has
been executed in the county or city in which the action is brought, or
(e) unless it be otherwise specially provided.