CHAPTER 481

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 14-155, as amended, of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to the maximum fees for court clerks, high constables
and certain city sergeants.

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Approved March 30, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 14-155, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 14-155. The total annual compensation, exclusive of expenses au-
thorized by the State Compensation Board, of any officer mentioned in
§ 14-145 shall not exceed the sums hereinafter named, to-wit:
In cities or counties having a population of one hundred thousand or
more, such compensation shall not exceed the sum of seventy-five hundred
dollars per annum; with a population between thirty-eight thousand and
forty thousand such compensation shall not exceed eight thousand five
hundred dollars per annum; with a population between fifty thousand and
one hundred thousand and in counties adjoining cities having a population
of fifty thousand or more, such compensation shall not exceed seven
thousand dollars per annum; with a population between twenty-five thous-
and and fifty thousand, such compensation shall not exceed * siz thousand
seven hundred fifty dollars per annum; with a population between fifteen
thousand and twenty-five thousand, such compensation shall not exceed
sixty-five hundred dollars per annum; and with a population of fifteen
thousand or less, such compensation shall not exceed four thousand five
hundred dollars per annum except in cities of the first class in which it
shall not exceed five thousand dollars per annum exclusive of any com-
pensation allowed by the respective city councils; and provided, however,
that in determining the compensation allowed to any such officer hereunder
any compensation allowed to such officer by his city council or county board
of supervisors, other than commissions allowed by State law for the dis-
charge of any duties imposed upon such officer by the council of the city,
board of supervisors of the county, or laws of this State shall be disre-
garded to the extent of: (a) not more than * five thousand dollars in cities
having a population of two hundred thousand or more and in counties
adjoining cities having a population of two hundred thousand or more,
(b) not more than twenty-five hundred dollars in cities or counties having
a population between fifty thousand and two hundred thousand and in
counties adjoining cities having a population between fifty thousand and
two hundred thousand, (c) not more than fifteen hundred dollars in cities
and counties with a population between twenty-five thousand and fifty
thousand, and (d) not more than one thousand dollars in cities and coun-
ties with a population of twenty-five thousand or less. Provided that when,
in any city having a population in excess of one hundred thousand, any
person serves as clerk of more than one court of record in such city he
shall annually receive, in addition to the compensation to which he is en-
titled as clerk of any court of record in such city, not to exceed one
thousand dollars additional for each other such court of which he is clerk.
Provided that in any county having a population of more than twenty-
nine thousand but less than twenty-nine thousand seven hundred such
compensation shall not exceed six thousand five hundred dollars. Provided,
further, that in any county having a density of population in excess of
four thousand persons to a square mile or in any city adjoining such
county, any person who serves as clerk of any court of record having two
or more regularly appointed or elected judges and/or serves as clerk of
more than one court, whether the same be a court of record or otherwise,
he shall receive annually, in addition to the compensation to which he is
entitled as court clerk in such county or city not to exceed one thousand
dollars additional for each judge, in excess of one, of a court of record
for which he acts as clerk and one thousand dollars additional for each
other statutory court of which he is clerk, whether the same be a court
of record or otherwise. Provided, further, that in any county having a
population in excess of ninety-nine thousand and containing an even
number of magisterial districts, such compensation shall not exceed eight
thousand five hundred dollars.

Nothing herein shall be construed to alter or affect in any manner the
increases provided in §§ 14-155.2 and 14-155.7 and now in effect.