Chap. 141.—An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection (g) of section 29 of
chapter 64 of the acts of 1922, entitled, an act to provide a new charter tor
the city of Suffolk and to repeal the existing charter of said city and the
several acts amendatory thereof and all other acts and parts of acts incon-
sistent with this act so far as they relate to the said city of Suffolk, approved
February 25, 1922. (H B 22%]

Approved March 10, 1928

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sub-
section (g) of section twenty-nine of chapter sixty-four of the acts
of nineteen hundred and twenty-two, entitled an act to provide a new
charter for the city of Suffolk and to repeal the existing charter of
said city and the several acts amendatory thereof and all other acts
and parts of acts inconsistent with this act so far as thev relate to the
said city of Suffolk, approved February twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred
and twenty-two, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

(¢). Issuance of warrants.—The council shall elect one or more
special justices of the peace to be known as warrant justices, who
shall hold office during the pleasure of the council and shall have such
powers as are hereby conferred, and no other. Such warrant justice
or justices shall, at the time of his or their election, and while holding
such office, reside in the city, and no person shall be ineligible to such
office by reason of the fact that at the time of his election or while
holding such office he is an officer or emplovee of the State or city.

Every warrant justice, before entering upon the performance of
his duties, shall take the official oaths required by State law, before the
clerk of the circuit court of the city.

Every warrant and attachment within the jurisdiction conferred
upon the civil and police justice by this charter shall be issued by one
of such warrant justices, but every warrant so issued shall be made
returnable before the civil and police justice and shall, unless other-
wise provided by law, be triable only by him or by the substitute civil
and police justice, and every attachment so issued shall be made re-
turnable before the civil and police justice or the circuit court of the
city, as the law directs; provided, however, that in event of the dis-
ability of the warrant justice or justices, warrants and attachments
may be issued by the civil and police justice, or, in event of the in-
ability of the civil and police justice to act for any of the reasons
mentioned in subsection (e) of this section, by the substitute civil
and police justice; and provided further, that no such warrant justice
shall have power to issue warrants or other process in cases to be
heard by the judge of the juvenile and domestic relations court for
the city. Any such warrant justice may also issue subpoenas for
witnesses in civil and criminal cases to be tried by the civil and police
Justice, but not in cases to be heard by the judge of the juvenile and
domestic relations court for the city.

Such warrant justice or justices shall reccive such salary or other
compensation as the council may from time to time prescribe by ordt-
nance, but no officer or employee in any department of the city gov-
ernment who may be elected warrant justice shall receive any salary
or other compensation as such justice while he holds such other othce
or continues in such other employment, unless and until the council
specihcally provides for such salary or other compensation by ordi-
nance.

The fees now or hereafter prescribed by law for the issuance of
Warrants shall be collected by the civil and police justice and be paid
by him into the treasury of the city monthly, but the council may, in
its discretion, provide that such fees shall be collected by such war-
rant justice or justices and be retained by him or them as compensa-
tion for his or their services.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force and effect
from its passage.