Chap. 363.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3109-a of the Code of Virginia
relating to the appointment, duties and compensation of clerks of civil and
police justices’ courts, so as to provide for the appointment of deputy clerks
for such courts and to prescribe their duties and provide for their aa re

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Approved March 30, 1940

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That
Section thirty-one hundred and nine-a of the Code of Virginia be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 3109-a. The said civil and police justice shall appoint a
clerk and may appoint a deputy clerk for his said court, who shall
hold office during the pleasure of the civil and police justice. The
said clerk and the said deputy clerk shall each have full power and
authority to issue any of the criminal or civil processes of said civil
and police justice, whether original, mesne, or final, and shall also
have full power and authority to issue warrants of arrest and search
warrants in criminal cases as well as any criminal or civil writ or
process which a justice of the peace is now or may hereafter be au-
thorized and empowered by law to issue, and the said clerk and
deputy clerk shall otherwise have the same power, authority, and
jurisdiction now or hereafter conferred by law upon a justice of the
peace in the city in which the said civil and police justice presides;
provided, that said deputy clerk shall exercise such power and au-
thority only when directed or allowed so to do by the rules of said
court as the same may be promulgated by said civil and police justice.
The clerk shall in addition thereto have charge of the civil and police
justice court room and office and the furniture and other property
contained therein, and be held responsible for the safe keeping and
protection of the same. The clerk shall have the care of keeping,
cleaning, warming and lighting the said court room and office. The
clerk or the deputy clerk shall attend all courts held by the civil and
police justice, and they shall perform such other services as may be
required of them by the civil and police justice. They shall receive
for their services such compensation as the respective city councils
shall fix, to be paid out of the treasury of this said city.

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