Chap. 349.—An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection (c) of section 27 of
the Roanoke charter of 1924, in relation to the jurisdiction and procedure
of the civil and police justice. {[H B 344]

Approved March 24, 1926.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sub-
section (c) of section twenty-seven of the Roanoke charter of nineteen
hundred and twenty-four be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

Subsection (c) Jurisdiction.—Such civil and police justice shall
he a conservator of the peace within the corporate limits of the city of
Roanoke and within one mile beyond said limits, and within such
limits shall have exclusive original jurisdiction for the trial of all
offenses against the ordinances of the city; provided, that the city
shall have the right of appeal to the corporation court of said city
from any decision of the civil and police justice affecting the legality

or validity of any ordinance passed by the council of the city; and he
shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the corporation court in all
cases of the violation of the revenue laws and the laws prohibiting
the manufacture, use, sale, offering for sale, transportation, keeping
for sale and giving away ardent spirits. He shall possess all the juris-
diction and exercise all the power and authority in criminal cases of a
justice of the peace, and except where it is otherwise specifically pro-
vided by law, shall have exclusive original jurisdiction for the trial of
all misdemeanor cases occurring within the corporate limits of the
city and concurrent jurisdiction with the county authorities of offenses
committed within one mile of the corporate limits. He shall possess
all the jurisdiction and exercise all the power and authority in civil
cases of a justice of the peace, except he shall not have power to issue
any warrants in detinue, unlawful detainer, attachments, distress
warrants and warrants for small claims. In all civil cases triable
before such civil and police justice no removal to any other court shall
be allowed, and all appeals shall, both as to procedure and as to the
courts to which the appeal may be had, be governed by section thirty-
one hundred and six of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act
approved March twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and twenty-four.
Council may, by ordinance, impose such other duties as it deems
expedient.