CHAPTER 505

An Act to amend and reenact § 14-86, as amended, of the Code of
Virginia, and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section
numbered 14-86.1, relating to compensation for sheriffs of counties
and sergeants of cities and their deputies.

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Approved March 31, 1960

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 14-86, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, be amended and
reenacted, and that the Code be amended by adding a section numbered
14-86.1, as follows:

§ 14-86. The annual salary of the sheriff of each county shall be not
less than thirty-six hundred dollars and not more than * ten thousand *
dollars. The annual salary of the sergeant of each city chartered prior to
December one, nineteen hundred fifty-three, shall be not less than thirty-
six hundred dollars and not more than * ten thousand * dollars. The
annual salary of a full-time deputy of a sheriff or of a sergeant shall be
not more than three-fourths of the compensation fixed for the sheriff or
sergeant of his county or city, as the case may be.

In fixing the salary of each sheriff and sergeant, and of each of their
full-time deputies, the Compensation Board shall take into consideration
the length of service of such sheriff, sergeant or deputy, the population
and area of the county or city for which he is elected or appointed, the
number of persons committed to the jail thereof, the aggregate number
of days spent by prisoners in the jail thereof, the compensation previously
received by the sheriff or sergeant and each of their full-time deputies,
the amount of fees collected by such officers and such other factors as the
Compensation Board deems proper.

The salaries shall be fixed, as far as is consistent with the factors
seremerore required to be considered, according to the following
schedule:

(1) In the counties of Amelia, Appomattox, Bland, Charles City,
Clarke, Craig, Cumberland, Essex, Fluvanna, Gloucester, Goochland,
Greene, Highland, James City, King George, King and Queen, Madison,
Mathews, Middlesex, New Kent, Northumberland, Powhatan, Rappahan-
nock, Richmond, Surry and Westmoreland *, the salary of each sheriff
shall be not less than thirty-six hundred dollars and not more than * siz
thousand * dollars per annum;

(2) In the counties of Bath, Charlotte, Culpeper, Floyd, King Wil-
liam, Lancaster, Louisa, Page, Stafford and Spotsylvania, the salary of
each sheriff shall be not less than thirty-six hundred dollars and not more
than * six thousand * dollars;

(3) In the counties of Botetourt, Buckingham, Loudoun, Lunenburg,
Nelson, Patrick, Shenandoah and Warren, the salary of each sheriff shall
be not less than thirty-six hundred dollars and not more than * siz thou-
sand * dollars per annum;

(4) In the counties of Amherst, Fauquier, Caroline, Grayson, Greens-
ville, Isle of Wight, Prince Edward, Sussex, York and Nottoway, the salary
of each sheriff shall be not less than four thousand dollars and not more
than * seven thousand * dollars per annum;

(5) In the counties of Alleghany, Albemarle, Bedford, Brunswick,
Campbell, Carroll, Dickenson, Dinwiddie, Frederick, Giles, Henry, Meck-
lenburg, Northampton, Prince George, Hanover, Orange, Pulaski, Rock-
bridge, Smyth, Southampton, Prince William and Wythe, the salary of
each sheriff shall be not less than four thousand five hundred dollars and
not more than * eight thousand * dollars per annum;

(6) In the counties of Accomack, Chesterfield, Halifax, Henrico,
Montgomery and Scott the salary of each sheriff shall be not less than four
thousand five hundred dollars and not more than * nine thousand * dollars
per annum;

(7) In the counties of Augusta, Buchanan, Franklin, Lee, Nanse-
mond, Pittsylvania, Roanoke, Rockingham, Russell, Tazewell, Washington
and Wise, the salary of each sheriff shall be not less than four thousand
five hundred dollars and not more than * nine thousand five hundred
dollars per annum;

(8) In the counties of Arlington, Fairfax, Princess Anne and Nor-
folk the salary of the sheriff shall be not less than five thousand dollars
and not more than * ten thousand * dollars per annum;

(9) In the cities of Buena Vista, Norton and Williamsburg, the
salary of each sergeant shall be not less than three thousand six hundred
dollars and not more than * siz thousand * dollars per annum;
(10) In the cities of Bristol, Charlottesville, Clifton Forge, Virginia
Beach, Fredericksburg, Hopewell, Martinsville, Suffolk, Radford, Staun-
ton, Winchester and Waynesboro, the salary of each sergeant shall not be
less than three thousand six hundred dollars and not more than * seven
thousand * dollars per annum;

(11) In the cities of Hampton, Lynchburg, Newport News, * Peters-
burg and Portsmouth, the salary of each sergeant shall be not less than
four thousand five hundred dollars and not more than * nine thousand five
hundred dollars per annum

(12) In the cities of Richmond, Norfolk, Roanoke, Alexandria and
Danville, the salary of each sergeant shall be not less than five thousand
dollars and not more than * ten thousand * dollars per annum, provided,
however, that in counties or cities having a population of more than ninety
thousand and two or more courts of record or two or more judges of the
same court of record, the Compensation Board, in its discretion, may make
an additional allowance not to exceed one thousand dollars.

§ 14-86.1. The maximum limits of the salaries provided by this
article are hereby increased to the extent of fifteen hundred dollars in the
case of officers in counties adjoining one or more cities of more than
twenty-five thousand inhabitants, whether such cities be within or with-
out this State, and in case of officers in cities adjoining or within one mile
of another city or county of more than one hundred thousand inhabitants.
2. This act shall be in force and effect on and after July first, nineteen
hundred sixty.