CHAPTER 135

An Act to amend and reenact § 16.1-148.1 of the Code of Virginia and to
amend the Code of Virginia by adding sections numbered 16.1-148.2
through 16.1-148.7, the amended and new sections relating to regional
juvenile and domestic relations courts, the method of establishment,
the duties of local governing bodies in connection therewith, the sal-
aries of officers and employees of such courts, travel expenses, ap-
pointments of employees, qualifications of judges, and prohibitions
applicable to the judges of such courts. Ht 258)

Approved March 2, 1964

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 16.1-143.1 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted,
and that the Code of Virginia be amended by adding §§ 16.1-143.2 through
16.1-143.7, the amended and new sections being as follows:

§ 16.1-143.1. The governing bodies of * two or more cities or of two
or more counties or of any combination of cities and counties may, with
the approval of the judge or judges of the circuit court or courts of said
cities and/or counties, establish and operate a * regional juvenile and do-
mestic relations court to serve the participating counties and cities.

§ 16.1-143.2. Whenever a regional juvenile and domestic relations
court is established it shall be known as (First, Second, etc.) Regional
Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court (numerical order being assigned
in the order of establishment thereof). Such court shall be known in each
county or city it serves as the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court for
the (city or county) of (name of city or county), and shall have and exer-
cise the same authority, power and jurisdiction as other juvenile and do-
mestic relations courts established under Chapter 8 of Title 16 of the 1950
Code of Virginia, as amended.

Hearings shall be conducted in the city or county wherein the offense
occurs but the judge of the court wherein a matter is heard or is to be
heard may enter any order or decree of his court at any place and time. In
each participating city or county, a clerk’s office shall be kept open during
the same hours as clerk’s offices for courts not of record are kept open.
The clerk or deputy clerk of the juvenile and domestic relations court may
be the same person as the clerk or deputy clerk of any other court in sad
ou or county. The governing body of each participating city or county

provide such suitable quarters, furniture and utilities, including a
telephone, as may be necessary for the operation of said court in said city
or county. All other office equipment and supplies, including postage,
shall be furnished by the State and shall be paid out of the appropriation
for Criminal Charges.

§ 16.1-148.8. The salaries of the judges and associate judges of a
court established under § 16.1-148.1 shall be fixed by the committee created
under § 14-50 at an amount not in excess of the amount paid judges of
courts of record, and the salaries of the clerk, deputy clerk and other em-
ployees of said courts shall be fixed by the same committee. The salaries
of such probation officers as may be appointed shall be fixed by the com-
mittee created under § 14-50 at an amount within the ranges established
by the Department. Each substitute judge of any such court shall receive
for his services per diem compensation equivalent to 1/25 of the monthly
salary of the judge of his court in the same manner as such committee pays
substitute judges for other courts not of record. All salaries payable under
this section shall be paid by the State out of the appropriation for Criminal

rges.

§ 16.1-148.4. Under the rules of the Department travel expenses in-
curred by a judge or by a probation officer or other officer of a regional
guvenile and domestic relations court while traveling under the order of
the judge, shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of the appropriation
for Criminal Charges.
§ 16.1-148.5. The judge of a regional juvenile and domestic relations
court shall have and exercise the same powers to appoint clerks, deputy
clerks, bailiffs, probation officers and other court employees as are ac-
corded to other judges under the provisions of Chapter 8 of this Title.

§ 16.1-148.6. The judge, associate judge or substitute judge shall be
appointed for a term of four years by the judges of the courts of record
within the area served by such juvenile and domestic relations court. Such
judge, associate judge or substitute judge shall be a person licensed to
practice law in this State and shall, at the time of his appointment, be a
resident of the area served by such ‘juvenile and domestic relations court,
except that tf, in the opinion of the appointing judges, no qualified lawyer
who we will serve resides in such area, it shall be lawful to appoint a non-
resident.

If the appointment is to be made by an even number of judges and
they cannot agree, such fact shall be certified to the Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court of Appeals who shall thereupon designate a judge of some
other circuit or corporation court to sit with such judges in considering
the appointment, which appointment shall then be made by a majority
vote of said judges.

§ 16. 1-148.7._ No judge of a regional juvenile and domestic relations
court who is appointed to serve on a full-time basis shall engage in the
practice of law, but this shall not apply to a substitute judge nor to an
associate judge unless appointed to serve on a full-time basis.