Chap. 232.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3102 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, as amended by acts, approved March 27, 1922, and March 15, 1924, in
relation to civil and police justices, civil justices and judges of municipal
courts. [S B &2]

Approved March 23, 1926.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty-one hundred and two of the Code of Virginia, as amended by
acts approved March twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and twenty-
two, and March fifteenth, nineteen hundred and twenty-four, be fur-
ther 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
jurisdiction with the corporation court of said city in all cases of viola-
tions 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 juris-
diction in all civil matters cognizable by justices of the peace for the
counties, and shall, in addition thereto, have concurrent jurisdiction
with the circuit and city courts of general jurisdiction of any claim
to damages for any injury done to the person, which would be recover-
able 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 six
thousand and sixty-nine and six thousand and seventy 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 defendant, 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 attachment
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 attach-
ment.

(ID) The said civil and police justice, and the judge of the munici-