Chap. 423. —An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1, as amended, 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 juris-
diction, 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, so as to provide that the same shall not affect
charter provisions, and provisions relating to trial justices. [H B 401]

Approved April 1, 1938

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
one, as amended, of an act entitled an act to provide for the appoint-
ment 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 jtuve-
nile 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 suc-
cessor has been appointed and has qualified, unless sooner removed as
provided by section twenty-seven hundred and five of the Code of
Virginia 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 pro-
visions of this act. This section shall not be construed as repealing
or in any way affecting, the provisions of the charter of any city which
now or hereafter provides that the civil and police justice of such
city shall ex officio be the judge of the juvenile and domestic relations
court for such city and that his term of office as such judge shall be
concurrent and co-extensive with his term as civil and police justice,
nor the provisions of general law that the trial justice shall in accord-
ance with the provisions of section forty-nine hundred and eighty-
seven-b, be the judge of the juvenile and domestic relatioas court in
each county and city in his brie