CHAPTER 6

An Act to make the city of Waynesboro a part of the twenty-ninth judicial
circuit; to establish a circuit court for said city; to make the judge of
the twenty-ninth judicial circuit the judge of said circuit court; to
prescribe the jurisdiction of said circuit court; to transfer to said
circuit court all suits, actions, proceedings and matters pending in the
corporation court; to provide for the clerk, city sergeant and Com-
monwealth’s attorney of said circuit court; to transfer to the clerk’s
office of said circuit court and make parts of the records therein, all
record books, papers and records of and in the clerk’s office of said
corporation court. 3

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Approved February 2, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. Thecity of Waynesboro is hereby made, and declared to be, a part
of the twenty-ninth judicial circuit, and there is hereby established a circuit
court for said city, under the designation of the circuit court of the city of
Waynesboro. The judge of the twenty-ninth judicial circuit shall be the
judge of the circuit court of the city of Waynesboro.

§ 2. There is hereby transferred to and vested in the circuit court of
the city of Waynesboro all jurisdiction and authority heretofore vested by
law in the corporation court of said city, of and concerning all cases,
matters and proceedings, both civil and criminal, arising within said city,
and said circuit court shall also have all such jurisdiction and authority
of and concerning all such cases, matters and proceedings, both civil and
criminal, arising within said city, vested by law in circuit courts, which
may not have been vested in said corporation court, and shall also have
concurrent jurisdiction with the circuit courts of contiguous counties, of
and over all criminal offenses committed within one mile of the corporation
limits of said city.
§ 3. Theclerk of the corporation court, the Commonwealth’s attorney,
the city sergeant and other officers of the corporation court, elected or ap-
pointed, shall continue as officers of the circuit court of Waynesboro during
the remainder of the terms for which they were elected or appointed, and
their successors shall be elected or appointed as provided by the charter of
said city and the laws of this State. The sergeant of said city shall have
authority to serve any and all processes emanating from said circuit court,
or the clerk’s office thereof, with like effect as if they were served by a
sheriff ; and said sergeant shall attend upon the terms of said circuit court,
perform similar services and duties as sheriffs attending circuit courts
and have the compensation provided by the laws of this State, for his
services.

§ 4. All suits, actions, proceedings and matters both of a civil and
criminal nature, pending in said corporation court, are hereby transferred
to the said circuit court and shall be treated and considered as pending
therein, and the papers and records in all such suits, actions, matters and
proceedings in which final decrees, judgments and orders have been made
and entered by and in the said corporation court, are hereby transferred to
the clerk’s office of said circuit court, and shall become and be part of the
records therein, and all books of whatever nature, in the clerk’s office of
said corporation court, wherein are recorded, entered or docketed deeds,
court orders, judgments and other writings or proceedings of any nature
whatsoever, and all papers returned to and filed in said clerk’s office, are
hereby transferred to, and made records of the clerk’s office of said circuit
court, and all such deeds, judgments and other writings shall be treated
and considered as if they had been recorded, entered or docketed in the
clerk’s office of said circuit court, and all such court orders shall be treated
i ele as if they had been made and entered by the said circuit
court.

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