Chap. 308.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1945 of the Code of Virginia
as heretofore amended, relating to appointment of judges of juvenile and do-
mestic relations courts, to provide that in any city having a population of more
than 25,000 and lying wholly within a county having a population of more thar
58,000, according to the last preceding United States census, the judge of suct
court need not be a person licensed to practice law. [H B 440]

Approved March 30, 1942

I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
nineteen hundred and forty-five of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore
amended, be amended and re-enacted, as follows:

Section 1945. Establishment of juvenile and domestic relations
courts.—The council or other governing body of any city of this Com-
monwealth containing twenty-five thousand inhabitants or more, accord-
ing to the last preceding United States census, shall elect a special justice
of the peace, who shall be a person licensed to practice law, to be known
as the judge of the juvenile and domestic relations court of such city, and
who shall hold office for a term of six years and until his successor has
been elected and has qualified, unless sooner removed, as hereinafter pro-
vided. Provided, however, that no election hereunder shall take place un-
til the expiration of the respective terms for which the said special jus-
tices are now elected. But this section is subject to this proviso; that in
cities of not less than twenty-five thousand nor more than one hundred
thousand inhabitants, according to the last preceding United States cen-
sus, said council or other governing body may designate the civil or po-
lice justice to act as the judge of such juvenile and domestic relations
court, in which event he shall hold office for the term for which he is
elected as such civil or police justice, or until a special justice may be
elected as above provided; provided, further, that in any city having a
population of more than twenty-five thousand and lying wholly within
a county having a population of more than fifty-eight thousand, accord-
ing to the last preceding United States census, the person designated to
act as judge of the juvenile and domestic relations court need not be a
person licensed to practice law. Nothing herein contained shall apply to
the method of electing the judge of the juvenile and domestic relations
court for any city having a population of not less than one hundred thou-
sand nor more than one hundred and fifty thousand, according to the last
preceding United States census.

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