CHAPTER 409

An Act to amend and reenact § 17-41, as amended, of the Code of
Virginia, relating to when clerk’s offices are to be kept open.

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Approved March 31, 1962

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 17-41, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 17-41. The clerk’s office of every court shall be kept open on every
day except Sunday, the Fourth of July, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas
Day, during convenient hours, for the transaction of business; provided
that:

(1) In cities it may be closed on New Year’s Day, Memorial Day,
Labor Day and Veterans Day, and the judge of the circuit court of any
county may authorize the clerk to close the office on any such day or days;

(2) The judge of any circuit or corporation court may authorize the
clerk to close the office on Saturday at twelve o’clock noon;

(3) In cities having a population of one hundred forty thousand or
more, and in cities having a population of not less than * ninety thousand
nor more than ninety-five thousand, the clerk’s office of any court may be
eer on all days which are made legal holidays under the provisions of

(4) The judge of the circuit court of any county adjoining a city
within or without the territorial limits of the Commonwealth of Virginia
having a population of one hundred forty thousand or more, may authorize
the clerk to close the office on all days which are made legal holidays under
the provisions of § 2-19;

(5) The judge of the circuit * or corporation court of any * county
* or city may authorize the clerk to close the office on Saturday and/or on
any or all days which are made legal holidays under the provisions of
§ 2-19; provided the governing body of such county or city approves such
action as evidenced by a resolution adopted by such governing body.
(6) * The judge of any court in any county or city may authorize the
clerk of such court to close the office on Saturday and/or on any or all days
which are made legal holidays under the provisions of § 2-19; provided the
governing body of such county or city approves such action as evidenced
by a resolution adopted by such governing body.

(7) * Notwithstanding the provisions of (5) and (6) hereof, the office
of any clerk which has been closed on Saturday, pursuant to law, prior
to July one, nineteen hundred sixty-two, may remain closed on Saturday.

* (8) The clerk’s office of the circuit court of any county having a
population of more than twenty-one thousand five hundred but less than
twenty-two thousand five hundred, and of any county contiguous to a city
having a population of more than ninety thousand but less than one hun-
dred thousand, and of any county having a population of more than thir-
teen thousand but less than sixteen thousand, may be closed on any day
which is established as a general holiday for the employees of such county
by a resolution duly adopted by the governing body of such county and
approved by the judge of the circuit court and filed in the office of such
clerk;

* (9) The judge of the circuit court of any county having a popula-
tion of not less than seventeen thousand five hundred, or of any county
having a population of not less than thirty-three thousand five hundred
nor more than thirty-four thousand, may authorize the clerk to close the
office on any or all days which are made legal holidays under the provi-
sions of § 2-19.

Whenever the authorization of the judge is necessary to close a clerk’s
office and a clerk is the clerk of more than one court, or a court has more
than one judge, the authorization of all such judges shall be necessary.

The judge of the circuit court of any county may require the clerk’s
office to be kept open continuously for the transaction of business during
convenient hours on all the days on which it is herein required to be kept
open:

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