Chap. 250.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section one of an act entitled an
act to provide for the appointment of special justices of the peace in cities
of less than 25,000 inhabitants and in counties, to be known as judges of
juvenile and domestic relations courts; to prescribe their jurisdiction, powers,
duties, and compensation; and to provide for the maintenance of juvenile and
domestic relations courts in such cities and in counties, approved March 27,
1922. [H B 219]

Approved March 28, 1934

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That an act
entitled an act to provide for the appointment of special justices of the
peace in cities of less than twenty-five thousand inhabitants and in
counties, to be known as judges of juvenile and domestic relations
courts; to prescribe their jurisdiction, powers, duties, and compensation ;
and to provide for the maintenance of juvenile and domestic relations
courts in such cities and in counties, approved March twenty-seventh,
nineteen hundred and twenty-two, be amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows:

Section 1. The circuit court of every city of less than twenty-five
thousand inhabitants according to the last United States census, or the
corporation court thereof if there be no circuit court and the circuit
court of every county of this State shall appoint a special justice of the
peace, preferably a person trained in the law, to be known as the judge
of the juvenile and domestic relations court for such city or county,
who shall hold office for a term of six years and until his successor
has been appointed and has qualified, unless sooner removed as pro-
vided by section twenty-seven hundred and five of the Code of Vir-
ginia of nineteen hundred and nineteen; provided, that said circuit
court may designate or appoint the same person to act as such special
justice for a city and one or more counties, or for two or more counties
within his judicial circuit. Cities having no corporation court or separate
circuit court shall, for the purposes of this act, be deemed in all respects
to be parts of the counties in which they are situated. Police and civil
justices shall be eligible to appointment under the provisions of this act.