CHAPTER 82

AN ACT to amend the Code of 1950 by adding a section numbered
17-119.1, 80 as to provide for an additional circuit court judge
in certain judicial circuits.

[S 1386 ]

Approved March 2, 1950

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of 1950 be amended by adding a section num-
bered 17-119.1, as follows:

§ 17-119.1. Additional judges.—For each judicial circuit con-
sisting wholly of a county having a density of population, accord-
ing to the last preceding United States census, of more than two
thousand persons per square mile, and for each judicial circuit ad-
joining such circuit, an additional circuit court judge shall be
chosen who shall during his tenure reside within the circuit and
whose compensation and powers, except as hereinafter provided,
shall be the same as now and hereafter prescribed for circuit
judges. The office, and vacancies occurring therein, shall be filled
in the manner and for the term provided by general law for the
filling of vacancies in the office of judges of circuit courts or for
choosing the judge when a new or additional circuit has been
created. .

In any such judicial circuit where an additional judge is au-
thorized and chosen under the provisions hereof, the judge who
ig senior in point of service onthe circuit court bench shall be the
senior judge of the circuit and shall have authority to assign the
work of the circuit as between the judges, but no order of court
shall be necessary to establish the authority of either judge to act.

The senior judge shall exclusively exercise all powers of ap-
pointment conferred upon circuit judges, except the appointment
of guardians ad litem, guardians for infants, guardians or com-
mittees for insane or incompetents, receivers, personal representa-
tives, counsel for indigents and any other appointment incident
to the trial, hearing or disposition of any cause or action to be
determined or acted upon by the court, which powers shall be
exercised concurrently by the judges.

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