Chap. 107.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 11, as heretofore amended, of
an act entitled ‘‘An Act to provide a charter and special form of government
for the city of Hampton, and to repeal the existing charter of said city, formerly
the town of Hampton, approved May 23, 1887, and the several acts amendatory
thereof, approved, respectively, February 29, 1892; February 24, 1896; March
3, 1898; January 13, 1900; January 30, 1900; February 23, 1901; the two acts
of May 15, 1903; March 2, 1914; March 9, 1916, and the act of December 26,
1903, which became a law without the Governor’s signature; and all other acts
and parts of acts inconsistent with this act, so far as they relate to the city of
Hampton.”’, approved March 16, 1920. [H B 177]

Approved March 1, 1940

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That
section eleven, as heretofore amended, of an act entitled “An Act to
provide a charter and a special form of government for the city of
Hampton, and to repeal the existing charter of said city, formerly the
town of Hampton, approved May twenty-third, eighteen hundred
and eighty-seven, and the several acts amendatory thereof, approved,
respectively, February twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-
two; February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and _ ninety-six;
March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight; January thirteenth,
nineteen hundred; January thirtieth, nineteen hundred; February
twenty-third, nineteen hundred and one; the two acts of May fif-
teenth, nineteen hundred and three; March second, nineteen hundred
and fourteen; March ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and the
act of December twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and three, which
became a law without the Governor’s signature, and all other acts
and parts of acts inconsistent with this act so far as they relate to
the city of Hampton.’’, approved March sixteenth, nineteen hundred
and twenty, as heretofore amended, be amended and re-enacted so
as to read as follows:
Section 11. The city council may appoint a police justice for the
said city who shall, in civil matters within the limits of the said city
and in criminal matters within the limits of the said city and for one
mile beyond, have and possess the same powers, authority, and
jurisdiction as that which now is, or may hereafter be, vested by
general law in the trial justice of the various counties within their
counties. Such appointment, if made, shall be for the term of four
(4) years beginning on the first day of January, nineteen hundred
and forty, or for such remainder of said term as shall not have expired
at the time of such appointment, in case the same shall not have been
made on or before the beginning of said term or in case a vacancy
shall at any time exist, and shall be effective until his successor is
duly appointed and has duly qualified to the office.

Such police justice shall receive such salary not to exceed two
thousand dollars ($2,000.00) per annum as may be fixed by the city
council, and he shall receive no other compensation for his services
as police justice.

The city council may also appoint a substitute police justice who
is empowered to act as police justice during the absence or disability
of the police justice, and his compensation shall be the same as that
of the police justice for the time actually served by him as such
substitute police justice and may in the discretion of the city council
be paid out of the salary of the police justice.

Before entering upon the discharge of his duties, the police justice
and the substitute police justice shall qualify and shall each execute
bond in such penalty and with such surety as the council may de-
termine, conditioned upon the faithful performance of their respective
duties. |

The city council may also appoint a clerk for the police justice
and in so doing may appoint any other officer or employee of the citv
whose office is not incompatible therewith to perform the duties of
such clerk, who before entering upon his duties, shall execute bond
in such penalty and with such surety as the city council may de-
termine, conditioned upon the faithful performance of his duties.
The term of office and salary of the clerk shall be as fixed by the
city council and his duties, powers and authority in respect to the
police justice court shall be the same as those of the clerk to the trial
justice of a county in respect to the trial justice court of such county.

All fees to be charged by the trial justices or their clerk in counties
under general law for the issuance of warrants, trial of cases, etc.,
shall be charged by the police justice or his clerk and collected as
their costs are collected, and the said fees and costs, together with
all fines collected for violation of all laws and ordinances of the said
city, shall be turned into the city treasury for the use and benefit of
the said city. The said police justice shall also be judge of the juve-
nile court and domestic relations court of the said city.

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