CHAPTER 24

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 17-41, as amended, of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to certain days on which clerk's offices to be kept open,
so as to permit closing thereof on certain days in certain cities and

counties.
[H. 111]
Approved February 10, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 17-41, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 17-41. The clerk’s office of every court shall be kept open on
every day, except Sunday, the Fourth of July, Thanksgiving Day and
Christmas Day, during convenient hours, for the transaction of business;
provided that:

(1) In cities it may be closed on New Year’s Day, Memorial Day,
Labor Day and Armistice Day, and the judge of the circuit court of any
county may authorize the clerk to close the office on any such day or days;

(2) The judge of any circuit or corporation court * may authorize
the clerk to close the office on Saturday at * twelve o’clock * noon;

(3) In cities having a population of one hundred forty thousand or
more, and in cities having a population of not less than eighty thousand
nor more than ninety thousand, the clerk’s office of any court may be closed
on all days which are made legal holidays under the provisions of § 2-19;

(4) The judge of the circuit court of any county adjoining a city
having a population of one hundred forty thousand or more, may authorize
the clerk to close the office on all days which are made legal holidays under
the provisions of § 2-19;

(5) The judge of the circuit court of any county having a population
of more than one thousand per square mile according to the last preceding
United States census, or the judge of any circuit, hustings or corporation
court of any city or county adjoining any such county, or any of them,
may authorize the clerk to close the office on Saturday ;

(6) In cities having a population of one hundred thousand or more
and in counties adjoining said cities, and, in cities having a population of
more than eighty thousand but less than one hundred thousand, and, in
cities having a population of more than thirty-eight thousand but less than
forty thousand, the clerk’s office of any court of record may be closed on
Saturday when authorized by the judge of the court; .

(7) In cities having a population of more than thirty thousand but
less than thirty-five thousand and sixty according to the last decennial
census, the clerk’s office of any court of record may be closed on Saturday,
when anon by the judge of the court and the governing body of the
city; an

(8) In counties having a population of more than thirty-three thou-
sand five hundred, but less than thirty-four thousand, the clerk may close
the office on Saturday at twelve o’clock, noon.

Whenever the authorization of the judge is necessary to close a clerk’s
office and a clerk is the clerk of more than one court, or a court has more
than one judge, the authorization of all such judges shall be necessary.

The judge of the circuit court of any county may require the clerk’s
office to be kept open continuously for the transaction of business during
convenient hours on all the days on which it is herein required to be kept
open.