Chap. 405.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3466 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, as amended, relating to the compensation of judges. [SB 2

Approved March 23, 1928

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty-four hundred and sixty-six of the Code of Virginia, as amended,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 3466. The judges of the circuit courts, corporation courts
and city courts shall receive the sum of four thousand five hundred
dollars each; the whole of which said salaries of said judges shall be
paid out of the State treasury, the State to be reimbursed to the ex-
tent of one-half thereof by the respective counties and cities served by
said courts except that of the salary of the judge of the circuit court
of the city of Richmond, the State shall pay the proportion which
would otherwise fall to the city of Richmond; and it 1s hereby made
the duty of the comptroller, on or before the first day of June, o1
each year, to apportion between the counties and cities served by said
courts the salaries of the judges thereof for the year beginning the
first dav of February, of the succeeding year, and transmit a statement
of such apportionment to the clerk of the council of each citv and the
clerk of the board of supervisors of each county served by said courts
and to the treasurer of each of said counties and cities.

It shall be the duty of the board of supervisors of each county and
the council of each city to provide funds for the payment of so much
of said salary as said statement shows to have been apportioned to its
county or city; but it 1s hereby made the duty of the treasurer of such
county or city to pay the same into the treasury of the State on or before
the first day of December each year, out of the funds of his county
or city in his hands, and to this end, he shall retain of said funds col-
lected by him, a sum sufficient to pay such portion of said salary, and
the said apportionment shall be the first and superior charge against
said funds.

Any treasurer failing to make such payment within the time pre-
scribed therefor shall be lable to the Commonwealth on his official
bond, for the part of such salary apportioned to his county or city,
and a penalty thereon of ten per centum.

Those judges whose terms of office, whether elected to fill regular
or unexpired terms, began before the passage of this amendatory act,
shall receive the same compensation as now provided by law; provided
further, that those judges whose terms of office, whether elected to fill
regular or unexpired terms, begin after the effective date of this
amendatory act, shall receive the sum of four thousand five hundred
dollars each. Provided, if and when section one hundred and two of
the Constitution is amended this act shall apply to all the judges on the
circuit, corporation and city courts throughout the Commonwealth.