CHAPTER 284

An Act to amend and reenact § 16-62 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to the issuance of warrants by clerks only in certain counties.
[S 226]

Approved March 10, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 16-62 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
follows:

§ 16-62. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter to the
contrary, in any county adjoining a city having a population of * two
hundred twenty-five thousand or more, such clerk shall issue all civil
warrants and other civil process returnable before the trial justice, and
no such warrants, or other process above mentioned shall be issued by
any other officer; except that when the plaintiff in a civil warrant is a
resident of such county but neither resides nor has an office or regular
place of business within ten miles of the county seat, such civil warrant
and subpoenas for witnesses thereunder may be issued by any justice
of the peace of such county.