Chap. 322.-An ACT to amend and re-enact section 34 of an act entitled an act to
amend and re-enact an act, relating to the charter of the city of Harrisonburg,
Virginia, approved March 3, 1896, so as to authorize the council of the said city
to elect a justice of the peace for the city of Harrisonburg, in addition to the
officers mentioned in section 34 of said charter. [S B 360]

Approved March 25, 1932

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, that section
thirty-four of an act relating to the charter of the city of Harrison-
burg, Virginia, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-
six, be amended and re-enacted to read as follows:

Section 34. The council may appoint, in addition to those herein
provided for, such officers and clerks as it may deem proper and neces-
sary, and define their powers and prescribe their duties, and fix their
compensation, and may take from any officer so appointed a bond with
sureties to be approved by the council, in-such penalty as it deems
proper, payable to the city by its corporate name, with condition for
the faithful discharge of said duties. All officers appointed by the
council may be removed from office at its pleasure. In case of any
vacancies occurring in any municipal office where it is not otherwise
herein provided, the council shall elect a qualified person to fill such
office during the unexpired term; but two-thirds of the council shall
concur in creating any such office or in afterwards abolishing it. The
council may also appoint, by a majority of all the members thereof, by
a recorded yea and nay vote, a city justice of the peace, who shall hold
office for a term of four years, and his term of office shall begin on the
first day of January, succeeding his election by the council. Said citv
justice of the peace shall have jurisdiction, concurrent with the mayor
of the city, to try all violations of ordinances of the city, including vio-
lations of ordinances imposing a license tax and for the nonpayment
thereof, and inflict such punishment and impose such fines as may be
prescribed for violation of the same by the ordinance of the city, and
in all criminal cases occurring within the city, such city justice shall
exercise all the powers and authority of a justice of the peace of the
county of Rockingham, and be entitled to the fees in such cases by law
allowed to justices of the peace.