Chap. 334.—An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new
section numbered 4829-a, authorizing police justices, justices of juvenile and
domestic relations courts, civil and police justices, and the clerk of the
police court of any city having a population of more than 100,000 inhabitants
to admit persons charged with criminal offenses to bail and to repeal chapter
433 of the acts of 1922. [fH B 171]

Approved March 24, 1930

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
Code of Virginia be amended by adding thereto a new section, num-
bered four thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine-a, reading as
follows:

Section 4829-a. All police justices, justices of juvenile and domes-
tic relations courts, and civil and police justices, whether elected or
appointed under general law or city charter, and the clerk of the police
court of any city in the State having a population of one hundred
thousand inhabitants or more by the last United States census, shall
have the power and jurisdiction within their respective cities or coun-
ties to admit to bail, upon recognizance with surety persons charged
with crime in all cases where courts of record or the judges thereof
are authorized to admit to bail; but none of the said officers shall admit
to bail after any court of record having jurisdiction to admit to bail
in the case, or the judge thereof, has acted upon the application or
pending proceedings before said court or judge to obtain bail.

If any of said officers shall refuse to admit to bail or require ex-
cessive bail, then application for bail may be made to the court of record
having jurisdiction to bail in the case, or to the judge thereof, and
the same proceedings may be had as if application had been made in
the first instance to said court or judge.

None of said officers who receives a salary from his county or city,
except in cities of over one hundred thousand inhabitants, by latest
United States census, shall, while he is holding court or immediately
prior to or after holding court while he is at the place where his court
is held, charge or receive any fee for admitting any person to bail or
for any service whatever rendered by him in connection with any
criminal case; but at all other times said last above mentioned officers
may charge and receive from the person for whom such services are
rendered the same fee for admitting to bail and other services as al-
lowed by law to justices of the peace, except that in admitting to bail
in felony cases said fee shall be two dollars. Provided, any city or
county may provide by ordinances for such bail fees to be collected
and paid into the treasury of such city or county.

2. Be it further enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
chapter four hundred and thirty-three of the acts of nineteen hundred
and twenty-two, entitled an act to enlarge and define the power and
jurisdiction of police justices, justices of juvenile and domestic rela-
tions courts, and civil and police justices to admit persons to bail and
fixing the compensation therefor, and to repeal an act entitled an act
to enlarge and define the power and jurisdiction of police justices to
admit persons to bail and fixing the compensation therefor, approved
February seventeen, nineteen hundred and twenty, approved March
twenty-seven, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, be, and the same is
hereby, repealed.