Chap. 401.—An ACT to amend an act entitled ‘“‘An Act to provide a new charter lor
the town of Front Royal, Warren county, Virginia, and to repeal all acts or parts
of acts in conflict herewith.’’, approved March 11, 1916, as heretofore amended,
by adding thereto a new section numbered 11-a, authorizing the appointment of

a civil and police justice for the said town, prescribing his powers and duties and
providing for his compensation, providing for the appointment and compen-
sation of a substitute civil and police justice and certain clerks for the said civil
and police justice, and providing for subsequent changes relating thereto; and to

prescribe conditions upon which the said new section shall take effect.

[S B 320]
Approved April 1, 1940

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That an
act entitled ““An Act to provide a new charter for the town of Front
Royal, Warren county, Virginia, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts
in conflict herewith.”, approved March eleventh, nineteen hundred
and sixteen, by adding thereto a new section numbered eleven-a,
which new section shall read as follows:

Section 11-a. The council, of the town of Front Royal may ap-
point a civil and police justice for said town, whose term of office shall
be two years from the date of his appointment, and whose powers,
duties, authority and jurisdiction shall be as hereinafter provided for.
Any such appointee shall serve for the said term of two years, and
thereafter until his successor shall be appointed and qualified. The
mayor, or any other qualified voter of the town, whom the council, or
governing body, may deem qualified, may be appointed as such civil
and police justice. In the event of the mayor being appointed as such
civil and police justice, he shall discharge the duties pertaining to the
office of civil and police justice, in his capacity as civil and police
justice, and not as mayor, and he shall receive the salary provided for
him by the council for his services as mayor, and also such salary, if
any, as may be provided for him by the council for his services as
civil and police justice.

Said civil and police justice is hereby vested with all the power,
authority, and jurisdiction, and charged with all the duties within,
and for, the town of Front Royal, which are, or may hereafter be, im-
posed upon trial justices and juvenile and domestic relations courts
by the laws of the State of Virginia, so far as the same may be appli-
cable and not in conflict with the provisions of this section; and any
amendments of the laws governing or relating to trial justices and
juvenile and domestic relations courts, or either, of this State shall be
considered as amendments, also, of this section, if the same are ap-
plicable hereto.

Fees and costs shall be assessed by the civil and police justice and
shall be collected as provided by the laws of the State of Virginia,
relating to trial justices and juvenile and domestic relations courts.
All fees and costs collected by the said civil and police justice and all
fines collected for violations of ordinances of the town shall be paid
into the town treasury for the use and benefit of the town.

Removals may be had, and appeals from the decisions of the civil
and police justice may be taken, to the circuit court of Warren county
in the same manner, upon the same terms, and shall be tried in the
same way as removals, or as appeals from the decision of trial justice:
or juvenile and domestic relations courts, as the case may be, are pro.
vided to be taken and tried by the laws of the State of Virginia, relating
to trial justices and juvenile and domestic relations courts.

The council may also appoint for the civil and police justice suck
clerk or clerks as may in its discretion be necessary, provide for just
compensation therefor, and provide necessary records.

The council shall provide a salary to compensate such civil and
police justice in such amount and payable at such times as it shal!
deem proper, and may provide also for a vacation period, either with
or without pay, and for such duration as in its judgment may be
proper.

Like provisions may be made for a substitute civil and police
justice, and when such substitute acts, he shall receive the compen-
sation which would have been paid his principal if he had acted, and
which compensation shall be deducted from the salary or allowance
made to the principal.

Nothing contained herein shall prevent the town of Front Royal
from combining with the county of Warren for the use of one trial
justice and one substitute trial justice for such combined town and
county, in such manner as may be provided by the laws of the State
of Virginia relating to trial justices, and if the town of Front Royal
and county of Warren shall at any time combine for the use of one
trial justice and one substitute trial justice for the said town and the
said county, the laws of the State of Virginia relating to trial justices,
so far as applicable, shall control and not this section; but the combi-
nation of the said town with the said county for the use of-one trial
justice and one substitute trial justice shall not prevent the council if
at any time thereafter it shall desire so to do, from withdrawing the
town of Front Royal from such combination, by a vote of the council,
and appointing a civil and police justice and substitute civil and police
justice for the town of Front Royal under the provisions of this sec-
tion, notwithstanding anything in the trial justice laws of Virginia to
the contrary; and likewise nothing herein contained shall prevent the
town, after withdrawing from such combination, from again adopting
the combination with the county.

2. The foregoing section eleven-a of the Charter of the town of
Front Royal shall not take effect or become effective unless and until
the same be approved and adopted by a majority of the qualified
voters of the town, voting on the question, at an election ordered and
held as next herein provided for. Upon the filing in the circuit court
of Warren county, or with the judge thereof in vacation, of a petition
signed by at least ten per centum of the qualified voters of the town,
requesting a referendum on the question of the approval and adoption
of said section eleven-a, the said court, or judge, shall, by an order
entered of record, direct the regular election officers of the town to
open a poll, on a day to be specified in said order, and take the sense of
the qualified voters of the town, on the question whether said section
shall be approved and adopted; the ballots therefor shall be prepared,
distributed and voted, and the results thereof determined and certified
in accordance with the provisions of section one hundred and ninety-
seven-a of the Code of Virginia. If the result of said election be in
favor of the approval and adoption of said section, the same shall
thereupon take effect and be in full force and effect.

3. An emergency existing, the foregoing provision for a referen-
dum on the question therein stated, shall take effect on the first day
of April, nineteen hundred and forty.