Chap. 301.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 6, 7 and 21 of an act
entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Shenandoah, Vir-
ginia, and to repeal all acts inconsistent with this act, approved March 1/7,
1926, and to further amend said act by adding thereto a new section to be
numbered section Sa. [H B 361]

Approved March 21, 1928

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tions six, seven and twenty-one of an act entitled an act to provide a
new charter for the town of Shenandoah, Virginia, and to repeal all
other acts inconsistent with this act, approved March seventeen, nine-
teen hundred and twenty-six, be amended and re-enacted, and that the
said act be further amended by adding thereto a new section to be
numbered section five-a, which amended sections and new section shall
read as follows:

Section 6. The mayor shall be the chief executive officer of the
town, and shall by virtue of his office possess no power, authority or
jurisdiction to try violations of the ordinances of the town or to act
as a justice of the peace in either civil or criminal matters, and all
such power, authority and jurisdiction as is customarily exercised by
the mayor of towns shall be vested in the police justice to be appointed
by the circuit court of the county of Page as herein more fully set

orth.

Section 7. The salary of the mayor shall be fixed by the town
council, but in no case shall this amount exceed one hundred dollars
per annum.

Section 21. The town sergeant shall be a conservator of the peace,
and in civil cases that may arise within the corporate limits of the
town, he shall be vested with all the powers which the general laws of
this State confer upon constables; his jurisdiction as a police officer,
except as otherwise provided by law, shall extend one mile beyond the
corporate limits. He shall possess the like right of distress and power
in collecting municipal taxes possessed by sheriff or constable in col-
lecting State and county taxes. He shall receive as compensation for
the discharge of his duties, unless otherwise ordered, the same fees
as the constable, and he may receive such other compensation as may
be prescribed by the town council.

Section 5a. Upon petition of the council the circuit court of Page
county shall appoint a police justice for the town of Shenandoah, who
shall be an elector of said town, and who shall enter upon the duties
of his office immediately upon qualification in the manner prescribed
by law for the qualification of justices of the peace, and shall continue
in office until his successor is appointed and qualified. His term of
office shall be coincident with that of the other officers of the town.
It shall be the duty of the police justice to try all criminal cases
arising under the ordinances of said town, and he shall, except as
otherwise provided by law, be clothed with all powers and authority
as a justice of the peace in all criminal and civil matters, within the
corporate limits and within one mile beyond the same and shall have
concurrent jurisdiction with same. He shall also have jurisdiction
over the same cases, matters and things as is conferred by general law
upon juvenile and domestic relations courts in the cities and counties
of the State; he shall receive as compensation for his services the
same fees that are allowed by law to the justices of the peace, and such
other compensation as the town council may prescribe.
2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby re-
pealed.

3. An emergency existing, this act shall be enforced from its
passage.