An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
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Volume | 1934 |
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Law Number | 272 |
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Chap. 272.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3l-a of an act entitled an
act to provide a new charter for the city of Roanoke, Virginia, and to repeal
the existing charter of said city and the several acts amendatory thereof and
all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act so far as they relate to
the city of Roanoke, approved February 28, 1928, so as to authorize the
hustings court of the city of Roanoke, or the judge thereof in vacation to
appoint a bail commissioner or bail commissioners for the city of Roanoke,
to provide for the disposition of fees collected by a bail commissioner, to pro-
vide for the compensation of a bail commissioner, to authorize the council
of the city of Roanoke, Virginia, to fix the compensation of such bail com-
sioner and to authorize certain officers of the city of Roanoke to admit
persons to bail. [fH B 295]
Approved March 28, 1934
I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion thirty-one-a (3l-a) of an act entitled an act to provide a new
charter for the city of Roanoke and to repeal the existing charter of
said city and the several acts amendatory thereof and all other acts or
parts of acts inconsistent with this act so far as they relate to the city
of Roanoke, approved February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and
twenty-eight, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
Section 31-a. Bail—The hustings court of the city of Roanoke, or
the judge thereof in vacation, may appoint one or more of the com-
missioners in chancery of the said court, bail commissioner or bail com-
missioners for such city. Such bail commissioner shall have the same
powers and duties in respect to the city of Roanoke as bail commis-
sioners for counties have in respect to their counties, and a bail com-
missioner shall hold office at the pleasure of the judge of the hustings
court. All fees collected by a bail commissioner shall be paid into the
city treasury and the bail commissioner shall be paid a salary to be
determined by the city council, which salary to such a commissioner
for any year, shall not exceed the amount paid into the treasury by him,
for fees collected during any such year, nor shall he be paid less than
seventy-five per centum of such.
In order that there shall be at all times some officer at the muni-
cipal building empowered to grant bail in misdemeanor cases, the chief
of police or the ranking officer on duty and present at the police station
shall, at all times in the absence of the civil and police justice or his
assistant have the same power to admit to bail persons arrested on
charges of misdemeanor and brought to the police station as a justice
of the peace. The sergeant of the city of Roanoke, Virginia, and any
and all of his regularly employed deputies shall at all times have the
same power to admit to bail persons arrested and brought to the police
station, as bail commissioners except as to persons charged with mur-
der, manslaughter, malicious shooting, burglary, robbery from the per-
son by violence, arson, rape or attempted rape. It shall be the duty
of officers empowered by this section so to do to admit to bail in proper
cases all persons applying therefor and offering adequate security. No
police officer, sergeant or deputy sergeant shall receive any fee for his
services in admitting persons to bail, in addition to his regular salary.