Chap. 347.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 6, 7, and 21 of an act en-
titled 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 17.
1926, and to further amend said act by adding thereto a new section to be
numbered section 5a. {S B 377]

Approved March 21, 1928

I. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
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 al! other
acts inconsistent with this act, approved March seventeenth, nineteen
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 num-
bered 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 forth.

Section 7. The salary of the mayor shall be fixed by the town coun-
cil, 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 rise 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 cor-
porate limits. He shall possess the like right of distress ‘and power in
collecting municipal taxes possessed by a sheriff or constable in collect-
ing State and county taxes. He shall receive as compensation for the
discharge of his duties, unless otherwise ordered, the same fees as a
constable, and he may receive such other compensation as may be pre-
scribed 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 compensa-
tion as the town council may prescribe.

2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby
repealed.

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