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
Law Body
Chap. 187.—An ACT to provide for the appointment of a commission on re-
districting judicial circuits in Virginia, and to prescribe the powers and
duties of such commission. [S B 78]
Approved March 18, 1926.
1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That there
shall be appointed a commission on redistricting judicial circuits in
Virginia, which commission shall have the powers and duties herein-
after prescribed.
2. The said commission shall consist of five members to be ap-
pointed as follows: Two by the president of the senate from among
the membership of the senate, and three by the speaker of the house
from the membership of the house. The members of the commis-
sion shall name one of its own members chairman and another sec-
retary.
3. The commission shall investigate and report prior to January
first, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven the work done by the courts
in the existing judicial circuits and for the purpose of improving and
equalizing the work of the present circuits, shall report to the next
general assembly a comprehensive plan of redistricting the existing
judicial circuits and whether or not the number of circuits should be
reduced and the work distributed with a view of a proper distribution
of the work and a speedy determination of the causes and actions
brought or pending within the said circuits.
If the said commission shall be of opinion that it is to the interest
of the public wield that a redistricting of the existing judicial circuits
be necessary or that the number be decreased, then it shall recommend
such legislation as may be necessary to carry into full force and effect
the recommendations proposed.
The said commission is fully authorized in its investigation to go
beyond the enumerated duties herein set forth and to make any rec-
ommendation supported by proper bills that in its judgment will ex-
pedite the hearing of cases and a prompt adjudication of all matters
that may be brought before the judiciary of the State, together with
the recommendations of any rules or regulations which in its judgment
should, be estat lsihed and promulgated by the courts of the State with
a view of having a prompt adjudication of litigation.
4. The members of the said commission shall receive no compen-
sation for serving thereon, but shall be entitled to be reimbursed for
their actual traveling and hotel expenses severally incurred in attend-
ing meetings of the commission, the same to be paid on warrants of
the auditor of public accounts issued on certificates signed by the
chairman and countersigned by the secretary of said commission.
For the purposes aforesaid there is hereby appropriated, out of any
moneys in the treasury not otherwise = SBPMPMAIeG, the sum of seven
hundred and fifty dollars.