An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
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Volume | 1940 |
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Law Number | 435 |
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Chap. 435.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 27 of an act entitled ‘“An Act
to provide a new charter for the City of Roanoke and to repeal the existing
charter of said city and the several acts amendatory thereof, and all other acts
or parts of acts inconsistent with this act so far as they relate to the city of
Roanoke.”’, approved March 22, 1924, as heretofore amended, relating to the
civil and police justice. (H B 505]
Approved April 2, 1940
1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That
Section twenty-seven of an act entitled ‘“‘An act to provide a new
charter for the city of Roanoke and to repeal the existing charter of
said city and the several acts amendatory thereof, and all other acts
or parts of acts inconsistent with this act so far as they relate to the
city of Roanoke.’’, approved March twenty-second, nineteen hundred
and twenty-four, as heretofore amended, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows: ,
Section 27. The civil and police justice shall be elected at the
time, in the manner and for the term provided by section nine of this
charter.
(a) Such civil and police justice, before entering upon the per-
formance of his duties, shall take the oath prescribed by law.
(b) Such civil and police justice shall receive such salary as the
council shall fix by ordinance, and he shall receive no other compensa-
tion or emoluments whatsoever.
(c) Such civil and police justice shall be a conservator of the
peace within the corporate limits of the city of Roanoke and within
one mile beyond said limits, and within such limits shall have exclusive
original jurisdiction for the trial of all offenses against the ordinances
of the city; provided, that the city shall have the right to appeal to
the corporation court of said city from any decision of the civil and
police justice affecting the legality or validity of any ordinance passed
by the council of the city; and he shall have concurrent jurisdiction
with the corporation court in all cases of the violation of the revenue
laws and the laws prohibiting the manufacture, use, sale, offering for
sale, transportation, keeping for sale and giving away ardent spirits.
In criminal cases, he shall possess all the jurisdiction and exercise all
the power and authority conferred by law upon a trial justice, and
except where it is otherwise specifically provided by law, shall have
exclusive original jurisdiction for the trial of all misdemeanor cases
occurring within the corporate limits of the city and concurrent juris-
diction with the county authorities of offenses committed within one
mile of the corporate limits. In civil cases, he shall possess all the
jurisdiction and exercise all the power and authority conferred by
law upon a trial justice, except he shall not have power to issue
warrants in detinue, unlawful detainer, attachments, distress war-
rants and warrants for small claims.
Removals and appeals from said civil and police justice, in civil
cases, shall be governed by section forty-nine hundred and eighty-
seven-f of the Code of Virginia, as amended, except removals and
appeals shall be to the hustings court and the court of law and chancery
of the city of Roanoke.
The said civil and police justice, in removals and appeals in civil
cases, shall divide the same as nearly as may be practicable, equally
between the hustings court and the court of law and chancery of the
city of Roanoke.
If any plaintiff shall not bring his case to trial within two years
from the time it is docketed in the court to which it is removed or
appealed, it shall be dismissed at the expiration of said two-year
period, unless, after reasonable notice to the plaintiff, good cause be
shown against such dismissal. ,
The city council, may, by ordinance, impose upon the civil and
police justice, such other duties as it may deem proper and expedient.
(d) He shall keep a regular account of all fees, fines, forfeitures
and costs imposed or arising in the administration of his office, which
he shall report weekly to the auditor, and shall pay such fees as he
has collected to the treasurer. The chief of police, or such officer as
shall be designated for that purpose, shall collect all fines, forfeitures
and cost and report the same weekly, to the auditor and pay the same
weekly to the treasurer.
(e) He shall keep his office and court at such places as may be
prescribed by council, which shall be kept open for the transaction of
business every day in the year except Sundays and legal holidays,
and if from any cause he is unable to act, the issuing justice, or if an
assistant civil and police justice has been elected, said assistant civil
and police justice, shall discharge the duties of the civil and police
justice prescribed herein during such inability.
({) Any vacancy occurring in the office of civil and police justice
arising from any cause shall be filled by council by election of a person
with the qualifications prescribed herein. ,