CHAPTER 442

An Act to amend and reenact § 17-136, as amended, of the Code of Virginia,
relating to corporation courts in cities of the first class. $ 52]
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Approved March 30, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 17-136, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 17-136. The corporation or hustings courts established and existing
the day before this Code takes effect in each of the above-named cities of
the first class, are continued with the same name under which they have
been previously known, and shall be taken and deemed to be the corporation
courts required by the Constitution to be established in such cities.
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The corporation or hustings court of the city of Roanoke, by whatever
name heretofore known or called, shall be hereafter named and called the
Hustings Court of the city of Roanoke.

The corporation or hustings court of the city of Portsmouth by what-
ever name known or called shall be hereafter named and called “The Court
of Hustings for the city of Portsmouth”. .

The corporation court established and existing the day before this
Code takes effect in the city of Radford, a city of the second class, is
continued under the name of the corporation court of such city and shall
be so known and held until the same shall be abolished by a vote of the
people of such city, as provided in the Constitution.

The Corporation or Hustings Court of the City of Petersburg, by what-
ever name heretofore known or called, shall be hereafter named and called
the Hustings Court of the City of Petersburg.

Each of such courts shall be held by a judge with like qualifications and

elected in the same manner as judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals.
2. This act shall not be construed to supersede or amend Chapter 7 of
the Acts of Assembly of 1956, approved February 2, 1956, but the two
acts shall be so construed as to give effect to the amendments of § 17-136
therein contained.