Chap. 356.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4830 of the Code of Virginia,
as heretofore amended, relating to bail by bail commissioners and clerks of
courts. [H B 181]

Approved April 1, 1942

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

Section 4830. <A bail commissioner or the clerk of the circuit court
of any county or city having criminal jurisdiction and the clerks of the
corporation or hustings courts of the several cities, shall have the same
powers to admit to bail as the circuit or corporation court or hustings
court of such county, or city or the judge thereof would have, if applica-
tion as hereinbefore provided had been made to said court or judge; but
no application may be made to said bail commissioner or clerk after said
court or judge has acted upon the application for bail or pending pro-
ceedings before said court or judge to obtain bail. If the bail commissioner
shall refuse to admit to bail or require excessive bail, then application may
be made to said court or judge, and the same proceedings may be had
as if application had been made in the first instance to said court or judge;
provided, however, that the clerk may refuse to hear such application.

Any such bail commissioner or clerk shall have authority to admit
to bail any person charged with a criminal offense, for the appearance
of such person in the trial justice court or any other court in which such
person is required to appear to answer for such offense, whether any such
court be a court of the county or city of such bail commissioner or clerk,
or of some other county or city in this State.