CHAPTER 112

An Act to amend and reenact § 51-8, as amended, of the Code of
Virginia, relating to requisites for retirement for certain judges.

[H 350]
Approved February 26, 1964

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 51-3, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended and re-
enacted as follows:

§ 51-3. (a) Effective January first, nineteen hundred and sixty-two,
any judge of a circuit court, or of any corporation or city court of any
city of the first class, who has attained the age of sixty-five years and has
served for not less than twelve years as judge of any one or more of such
courts, and any such judge who has attained the age of sixty-eight years
prior to July first, nineteen hundred and sixty-two, and has served for not
less than ten years as judge of any one or more of such courts, and any
judge of any such circuit, corporation or city court who has attained the
age of sixty-two years and has served for not less than twenty-five con-
secutive years as judge of any one or more of such courts, may retire from
active service upon the bench
(a-1) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (a) of thts sec-
tion or of any other provision of law to the contrary, any judge of a circutt
court, or of any corporation or city court of any city of the first class who,
on the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred sixty-one, was par-
ticipating in, and was in good standing under, the provisions of this chap-
ter and who, after such date, attained, or hereafter attains, the age of
sixty years and has, or shall have, served for not less than twenty-five con-
secutive years as judge of any one or more of such courts, may retire from
active service upon the bench.

(b) Any judge of any circuit court, or of any corporation or city
court of any city of the first class, elected or appointed for the first time
after June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifty-four, and prior to March
first, nineteen hundred and sixty-two, shall retire from active service upon
attaining the age of seventy-five years, regardless of his years of such
service, and those elected or appointed for the first time after March first,
nineteen hundred and sixty-two, shall retire from active service upon at-
taining the age of seventy years regardless of his years of service. In
either event such judge shall not be entitled to retired pay unless he has
served at least twelve years.

(c) Each judge retiring under any of the provisions of this section
shall give the Governor notice in writing, at least ninety days in advance
of such retirement, stating in such notice the basis of such retirement, and
the date upon which such retirement will become effective. Upon receipt
of such notice, the Governor shall notify the Comptroller as to such re-
tirement and the effective date of the same.