An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
Volume 1968 Law 99
Volume | 1867 Extra Session |
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Law Number | 58 |
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Chap. 58.—An ACT to amend the Ist section of chapter 206 of the Code
of Virginia, edition of 1860, in regard to grand juries in county courts.
Passed April 20, 1867.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the first
section of chapter two hundred and six of the Cede of Vir-
ginia, edition of eighteen hundred and sixty, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:
“§ 1. There shall be a grand jury at each term of a circuit
court, except a term merely for the trial of civil causes, and
at only two of the quarterly terms of the courts for any
county or corporation (to be designated by each court), ex-
cept the corporation of Richmond: and at the terms of the
corporation court of Richmond in February, May, August
and November, and at each of the quarterly terms of the cor-
poration courts of Norfolk, Alexandria and Lynchburg; but
it shall be lawful for a circuit court, at a special term thereof,
whenever it shall deem it proper to do so, to order a grand
jury to be summoned to consider any offences against the
laws, whether the same shall have been committed before the
next preceding term of said court or not, and whether the
accused’ shall have been regularly examined or not prior to
the next preceding regular term; and it shall be competent
for the county court of any county, all the justices of the
county having been summoned for the purpose, and a ma-
jority of those present concurring, to provide that there shall
bea grand jury at more than two quarterly terms of said
courts: provided, however, that tHe said court may, at any
time, and in like manner, after the adoption of the said pro-
vision, dispense with the aaions grand jury or grand ju-
ries herein provided for.”
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.