CHAPTER 37

An Act to amend and reenact § 15-388 of the Code of Virginia as amended,
relating to certain officers in counties operating under certain forms
of county government.
1. That § 15-338 of the Code of Virginia as amended be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 15-338. The following officers shall not, except as herein otherwise
provided, be affected by the adoption of either the county executive form
or the county manager form:

(1) Jury commissioners,

(2) Notaries public,

(3) County electoral boards,

(4) Registrars,

(5) Judges and clerks of elections, and

(6) Justices of the peace; provided, however, that in any county
which adopts either the county executive form or the county manager
form there shall be appointed or elected in the manner provided by law
not to exceed one justice of the peace in each magisterial district; in any
magisterial district, in which at the time either of the forms of organiza-
tion and government is adopted there is more than one justice of the peace
or no justice of the peace the judge of the circuit court of the county shall
appoint one such justice, who shall hold office until his successor shall
be elected or appointed and qualified; the terms of the other justices of
the peace in such magisterial district shall expire when the appointee
takes office; provided further, that in any county adopting and operating
under the county manager form which adjoins a city, lying wholly in the
Commonwealth of Virginia, having a population of * two hundred *
twenty thousand or more, the judge of the circuit court of such county
may, if he deems the same necessary or expedient, appoint * not more
than two additional justices of the peace * in each magisterial district
in the county, and in any county having an area of not less than sixty nor
more than eighty square miles and in any county adopting or operating
under the county executive form of organization and government the
judge of the circuit court of the county may if he deems the same necessary
yr expedient appoint not less than one nor more than three justices of the
yeace for each magisterial district in the county, to serve during the
jleasure of the judge of the court, and each justice of the peace so
.ppointed shall give bond and qualify as prescribed by law for justices
f the peace elected by the people.