CHAPTER 276

An Act to amend Chapter 808 of the Acts of Assembly of 1944, approved
March 29, 1944, which provided a new charter for the town of
McKenney, by adding thereto a section numbered 10.1, providing for
the appointment of trial justices and their compensation. CH 248]

Approved March 9, 1956
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That Chapter 308 of the Acts of Assembly of 1944, approved March
i 1944, be amended by adding thereto a section numbered 10.1 as
ollows:

§ 10.1. The council may appoint pursuant to the provisions of §
16-129 of the Code of Virginia, a trial justice for the town who shall
serve for a term of two years or until his successor is appointed by the
council and qualifies. The mayor, or any other qualified voter of the town
of McKenney whom the council deems qualified, may be appointed by it
as such trial justice. If the mayor is appointed as trial justice he shall
discharge such duties as the trial justice of the town under this charter
and not as mayor of the town, in addition to the execution of the duties
of the mayor imposed upon him by this charter; and his powers, duties,
authority and jurisdiction as such trial justice shall be as hereinafter
provided for the trial justice; he may receive. the salary of mayor pro-
vided by the council for the discharge of his duties as mayor as well as
such salary of trial justice as may be provided by the council, if any.

The trial justice is hereby vested with the right and authority to
issue warrants, summon witnesses and try cases involving violations of
town ordinances, or the collection of town taxes or assessments, or any
other debts due and owing to the town.

Fees and costs shall be assessed by the trial justice and shall be
collected as provided by the laws of the State of Virginia relating to trial
justices as the same shall now be or as hereafter amended. All fees and
costs collected by the said trial justice and all fines collected for violations
of all ordinances of the town shall be paid into the town treasury for the
use and benefit of the town.

Removals may be taken, and appeals from the decisions of the trial
justice may be taken, to the Circuit Court of Dinwiddie County in the
same manner, upon the same terms and shall be tried in the same way
as removals, or as appeals from the decision of trial justices, as the case
may be, are provided to be taken and tried by the laws of the State of
Virginia, relating to trial justices as the same shall now be or as hereafter
amended.

The council may also appoint such clerk or clerks as may in their
discretion be necessary, provide for just compensation therefor and pro-
vide necessary records.

The council of said town shall provide a salary to compensate such
trial justice in such amount and payable at such times as the council shall
deem proper, and the council may provide also for a vacation period, either
with or without pay, and for such duration as in the judgment of the
council may be proper.

Like provisions may be made for a substitute justice, and when such
substitute acts, he shall receive the compensation which would have been
paid him had the principal acted, and which compensation shall be
deducted from salary or allowance made to the principal.

The town of McKenney may combine with the county of Dinwiddie
for the use of one trial justice and one substitute trial justice for such
combined town and county, in such manner as may be provided by the
laws of the State of Virginia relating to trial justices; and if the town
of McKenney and the county of Dinwiddie shall at any time combine for
the use of one trial justice and one substitute trial justice for the said
town and the said county, the laws of the State of Virginia relating to
trial justices, so far as applicable, shall control and not this section of
this charter.

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