Chap. 52.——An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4970 of the Code of Vir-
ginia relating to special prosecuting attorneys. [S B 72]

Approved February 24, 1936

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
forty-nine hundred and seventy of the Code of Virginia be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 4970. In any case of felony or misdemeanor pending, or
in which no proceeding, indictment, nor warrant has been as yet com-
menced, in any circuit or corporation court of this State in which the
Commonwealth’s Attorney is so situated that it is improper or impos-
sible for him to act, the court, of its own motion, or the judge thereof
in vacation, shall have authority to appoint a special prosecuting officer
for that case, who shall have all the powers and privileges of the
regular Commonwealth’s Attorney and receive such compensation as
the court may allow, which shall be deducted from the salary and
allowances of the Commonwealth’s attorney, which shall be certified
and paid in accordance with the law.