CHAPTER 424

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 14-97 of the Code of 1950 relating
to what officers not to be paid fees in criminal cases and ex-
ceptions thereto, so as to increase the allowance in certain of
the exceptions.

[S 210]

Approved April 6, 1950

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 14-97 of the Code of 1950 be amended and reenacted as
follows:

§ 14-97. Salaried officers not to be paid fees in criminal cases:
allowance for serving process in criminal cases in cities—No
justice of the peace, trial justice, constable, sergeant, or captain
or sergeant of police who receives a salary or allowance for
general service out of the treasury of his county or corporation
shall receive any fees for services in a criminal case from the State,
city, or county, but all such fees to such officers shall be paid by
the party against whom judgment is rendered. But the Judge of
any city or corporation court may make an allowance not exceed-
ing * sig hundred dollars a year to each of two constables, ser-
geants or policemen of such city or corporation, to be paid in lieu
of all fees for serving criminal] process of any kind, which allow-
ance shall be paid out of the treasury. When any incorporated
community has become a city of the second class under chap 6
of Title 15, then the allowance above provided for shall be made by
the circuit court of such city.