CHAPTER 534

AN ACT to amend Chapter 196 of the Acts of Assembly of 1890,
entitled “An Act to provide for a new charter for the town
of Farmville’, approved February 10, 1890, as amended, by
adding thereto a new section, numbered 11-c, authorizing the
appointment and firing the compensation of justices of the

peace therein.
[H 688]

Approved April 7, 1950

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That Chapter 196 of the Acts of Assembly of 1890, entitled
“An Act to provide for a new charter for the town of Farmville”,
approved February 10, 1890, as amended, be amended by adding
a section numbered 11-c, as follows:

§ ll-c. The Circuit Court of Prince Edward County may
appoint one or more persons who may or may not be members of
the council, as justices of the peace for the town, who shall have
power to issue warrants, commit persons to jail and to admit to
bail persons charged with violation of the ordinances of the town.
The term of the office of the justices of the peace shall be at the
pleasure of the Circuit Court of Prince Edward County. No
justice of the peace who receives a salary from the town, as a
justice of the peace, shall receive any fee for admitting any person
to bail or for any services whatever rendered by him in connection
with any criminal] cases. The town of Farmville shall in no case
be liable for any bail fee. The council of the town of Farmville
shall have the authority to fix the compensation of justices of the
peace appointed hereunder. The town council may, by an ordi-
nance duly passed by it, empower the mayor, in the event of his
sickness or absence, or for any good and sufficient reason he feels
that he should disqualify himself from trying a case, to designate
any justice of the peace appointed hereunder to try and dispose of
any warrant issued in violation of a town ordinance, provided such
justice of the peace is first so designated by the mayor for such
purpose, whereupon such justice of the peace so designated by the
mayor shall be empowered to try and dispose of any such case su
assigned to him.

2. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.