CHAPTER 7

An Act to amend and reenact § 12.01 of Chap 586 of the Acts of
Assembly of 1950, approved April 7, 1950, being a new charter for
the city of Alexandria, the section relating to the qualifications,
manner of election, terms of office, duties, powers and compensation
of civil and police justices and substitute civil and police justices of
that city.

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Approved February 6, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 12.01 of Chap 536 of the Acts of Assembly of 1950, ap-
proved April 7, 1950, be amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 12.01. (a) The civil and police justice in office when this amend-
ment to the city charter takes effect shall continue in office until January
one, nineteen hundred fifty-four.

(b) There shall be elected by the qualified voters of the city at a
special election to be held on the second Tuesday in June, nineteen hundred
fifty-two, a civil and police justice additional to the civil and police justice
in office when this amendment to the city charter takes effect. The orig-
inal term of office of the additional civil and police justice shall begin on
the first day of July, nineteen hundred fifty-two, and shall end on the
first day of January, nineteen hundred fifty-four.

(c) There shall be elected by the qualified voters of the city on the
Tuesday after the first Monday in November, nineteen hundred fifty-three,
and every four years thereafter, two civil and police justices, each of
whom shall hold office for a term of four years and each of whose terms
of office shall begin on the first day of January succeeding his election.

(d) In case of a vacancy arising in the office of * civil and police
justice *, it shall be the duty of the council to certify such vacancy to the
judge of the corporation court, who shall issue his writ for an election to
fill the vacancy in the manner prescribed by the general election laws of
the State.

(e) Each civil and police justice at the time of his election shall have
practiced law actively in this State for at least five years, and during his
term of office shall reside in the city, shall devote his full time and atten-
tion to the duties of his office, and shall not practice law nor hold any
other office of public trust.

) The civil and police justice who is senior in point of continuous
service, or if neither is an incumbent, who is senior in active law practice
in Virginia shall be the senior civil and police justice and shall have
authority to assign the work of the court as between the justices, but no
order of court shall be necessary to establish the authority of either justice
to act. The senior justice exclusively shall exercise all powers of appotnt-
ment conferred upon civil and police justices except appointments inct-
dental 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 justices.
(g) Each civil and police justice shall receive an annual salary of not
less than eight thousand dollars to be paid in monthly installments out of
the treasury of the city. The city council shall make provision for such
salaries and in fixing salaries may take into consideration additional pay
to the senior justice for the additional duties imposed wpon him.

(h) There shall be appointed by the judge of the corporation court
of the city as many substitute civil and police justices as the said corpo-
ration court judge may determine to be necessary, but not more than four,
each of whom at the time of his appointment shall have practiced law
actively in this State for at least three years and during his term of office
shall reside in the city. Compensation for substitute civil and police
justices shall be fixed by the city council.

(ty) §§ 16-111 and 16-124 of the Code of Virginia are superseded as
to the city of Alexandria by the provisions of this charter, but all other
provisions of general laws applicable to civil and police justices and not
anconsistent with the specific provisions of this charter shall remain in
full force and effect insofar as the city of Alexandria is concerned.

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