Chap. 146.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6020 of the Code of Virginia.
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Approved March 17, 1932

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
six thousand twenty of the Code of Virginia be amended and re-en-
acted so as to read as follows:

Section 6020. How warrant issued: directed, and returnable, where
executed: how served on corporation; notice of motion—A justice,
when applied to by any person, shall issue a warrant directed to a con-
stable or the sheriff or sergeant of the county or corporation wherein
the defendant resides, together with a copy thereof, requiring him to
summon the person against whom the claim is to appear before him or
some other justice on a certain day, not exceeding thirty days from the
date thereof, to answer such claim. It shall be made returnable to
some place within the magisterial district in which the defendant or if
there be more than one, either defendant resides, or in the district in

which the cause of action arose, provided’such cause of action arose
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within the county in which the defendant, or one of the defendants, re-
sides. If there be two or more defendants, and any defendant reside
outside the county in which the warrant is issued, the summons for
such defendant residing outside the county may be directed to the
sheriff or sergeant of the county or city of his residence. If a public
service corporation be defendant, the watrant may be issued and tried
in the county or corporation in which the cause of action or any part
thereof arose. The warrant may be executed in any part of the county
or corporation. The warrant shall be served as provided for in sec-

tions six thousand and forty-one, six thousand sixty-three and six
thousand and sixty-four. ( S.-W)

Proceedings before a justice, including justices, civil and police justi-
ces, trial justice and judges of mayoralty courts, but excluding civil jus-
tices and civil judges in cities containing thirty thousand inhabitants or
more by the last United States census, in civil matters of which he may
have jurisdiction may also be by notice of motion, the same to con-
firm as nearly as may be practicable, to proceedings under section six
thousand forty-six of the Code of Virginia, except that such notice
shall be made returnable not more than thirty days from the date of
service thereof, shall be executed not less than ten days before the re-
turn day, and return to the justice before whom returnable, not less
than five days before the return day thereof, and any such notice
shall be in writing and shall be signed by the attorney for the plain-
tiff. : :

Where the word “warrant” is used in any section of the Code of
Act of Assembly, concerning proceedings before such justices in civil

cases, it shall be construed to mean “warrant or notice.”

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