Chap. 364.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4829-a of the Code of Virginia,
authorizing certaén justices and clerks to admit persons charged with crime to
bail, so as to authorize the clerks and deputy clerks of civil and police justices
to admit such persons to bail. [H B 441]

Approved March 30, 1940

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

Section 4829-a. All police justices, justices of juvenile and do-
mestic relations courts, and civil and police justices, whether elected
or appointed under general law or city charter, and the clerk or deputy
clerk of the police court of any city in the State having a population
of one hundred thousand inhabitants or more by the last United.
States census, and the clerk and deputy clerk of any civil or police
justice, shall have the power and jurisdiction within their respective
cities or counties to admit to bail, upon recognizance with surety,
persons charged with crime in all cases where courts of record or the
judge thereof are authorized to admit to bail; but none of the said
officers shall admit to bail after any court of record having jurisdiction
to admit to bail in the case, or the judge thereof, has acted upon the
application or pending proceedings before said court or judge to
obtain bail.

If any of said officers shall refuse to admit to bail or require ex-
cessive bail, then application for bail may be made to the court of
record having jurisdiction to bail in the case, or to the judge thereof,
and the same proceedings may be had as if application had been
made in the first instance to said court or judge.

None of said officers who receives a salary from his county or city,
except in cities of over one hundred thousand inhabitants, by latest
United States census, shall, while he is holding court or immediately
prior to or after holding court while he is at the place where his court
is held, charge or receive any fee for admitting any person to bail or
for any service whatever rendered by him in connection with any
criminal case; but at all other times said last above mentioned officers
may charge and receive from the person for whom such services are
rendered the same fee for admitting to bail and other services as
allowed by law to justices of the peace, except that in admitting to
bail in felony cases said fee shall be two dollars. Provided, any city
or county may provide by ordinances for such bail fees to be collected
and paid into the treasury of such city or county.

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