Chap. 273.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3102 of the Code of Virginia
as amended by an act approved March 27, 1922. (H 83}

Approved March 15, 1924.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty-one hundred and two of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an
act approved March twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and twenty-two,
be further amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 3102. Jurisdiction.—The jurisdiction of the civil and police
justice shall be as follows:

(a) The civil and police justice shall be a conservator of the peace
within the corporate limits of the city for which he is elected, and for one
mile beyond the corporate limits of such city, and within such limits
shall have exclusive original jurisdiction for the trial of all offenses
against the ordinances of said city, and shall have concurrent jurisdic-
tion with the corporation court of said city in all cases of violations of
the revenue and election laws of the State, except chapter one hundred
and eighty-four, and all offenses arising under the provisions of chapter
one hundred and eighty-five, of sections forty-five hundred and seventy-
two, forty-five hundred and seventy-three and forty-five hundred and
seventy-four, and, except when it is otherwise specially provided, shall
have exclusive original jurisdiction for the trial of all other misdemeanor
cases occurring within his jurisdiction.

(b) The said civil and police justice shall have exclusive jurisdiction
in all civil matters cognizable by justices of the peace for the counties,
and shall, in addition thereto, have concurrent Jurisdiction with the cir-
cuit and city courts of general jurisdiction of any claim to damages for
any injury done to the person, which would be recoverable by action at
law, if such claims do not exceed three hundred dollars. No other
justice of the peace in such city shall hereafter exercise such jurisdiction
as is herein conferred on said civil and police justice, except as provided
in this chapter.

(c) The said civil and police justice shall also have jurisdiction to
try and decide attachment cases where the amount of the plaintiff’s
claim does not exceed the general jurisdiction of said civil and police
justice, and the proceedings on any such attachment shall conform to
the provisions of chapter two hundred and sixty-nine of the Code of
nineteen hundred and nineteen; save when an attachment other than
under section sixty-four hundred and sixteen is returned executed, and
the defendant has not been served with a copy thereof, the said civil and
police justice, upon affidavit in conformity with sections sixty-two hun-
dred and sixty-nine of the Code of nineteen hundred and nineteen, shall
forthwith cause to be posted at the front door of his court room a copy
of the said attachment, and shall file a certificate of the fact with the
papers in the case, and in addition to the said posting, the plaintiff, in
the said attachment, or his attorney, shall give to the clerk of the said
civil and police justice the last known address or abode of the said de-
fendant, verified by affidavit, and the said clerk shall forthwith mail a
copy of the said attachment to the said defendant, at his, or her, last
known address, or place of abode; or, if said defendant be a corporation,
at its last known address, and the mailing of the said copy, as aforesaid,
shall be certified by the said clerk in writing, and such certificate shall
be filed with the papers in the case, and after the said copy of the attach-
ment has been so posted and mailed, as aforesaid, for fifteen days, the
said civil and police justice may proceed to try and decide the said
attachment.

(d) The said civil and police justice shall have concurrent juris-
diction with the circuit and city courts of general jurisdiction in all cases
of debt due by note when the amount does not exceed one thousand
dollars; provided, however, that where the amount in controversy ex-
ceeds the sum of three hundred dollars, the civil and police justice shall,
at any time before trial, upon the application of the defendant, and upon
the payment by him of the costs accrued and writ tax, remove the case
and all the papers thereof, to a court having jurisdiction of appeals from
said civil and police justice of the city wherein the warrant has been
brought, and transmit to the clerk the writ tax received by him, and the
clerk of the said court shall forthwith docket the case. On the trial of
the case the proceedings shall conform to proceedings under six thousand
and forty-six.