Chap. 53.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2773-n 55 of the Code of
Virginia, relating to certain county officers, so as to provide for the appoint-
ment of additional justices of the peace, by the judge of the circuit court of
any county operating under the county manager form of government and
organization adjoining a city lying wholly in the Commonwealth of Virginia
having a population of more than 170,000 according to the last preceding United
States census. [H B 150]

Approved February 21, 1942

1. Beit enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-seven hundred and seventy-three-n fifty-five, of the Code of
Virginia, be amended and re-enacted as follows:

Section 2773-n=95.—(a) The following officers shall not, except
as herein otherwise ;provided, be affected by the adoption of either the
county executive; form or the county manager form: (1) jury commis-
sioners, (2) examiners of records, (3) notaries public, (4) county
electoral boardshy(5) registrars, (6) judges and clerks of elections, and

(7) justices of the peace, provided, however, that in any county which
adopts, either the county executive form or the county manager form
there shall be appointed or elected in the manner provided by law not

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ofe justice of the peace in each magisterial district; in any
fial district, in which at the time either of the said forms of
ization and government is adopted there is more than one justice
of the peace or no justice of the peace the judge of the circuit court of
the county shall appoint one justice, who shall hold office until his suc-
cessor shall be elected or appointed and qualified; the terms of the other
justices of the peace in such magisterial district shall expire when such
appointee takes office; provided that in any county adopting and operat-
ing under the county manager form, which adjoins a city, lying wholly
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in the Commonwealth of Virginia, having a population of one hundred
and seventy thousand or more, according to the last preceding United
States census, the judge of the circuit court of such county may, if he
deems the same necessary or expedient, appoint an additional justice of
the peace for each magisterial district in said county, to serve during the
pleasure of the judge of said court, and each justice of the peace so
appointed shall give bond and qualify as prescribed by law for justices
of the peace elected by the people.

(b) Provisions of law in conflict with any form of county organiza-
tion and government adopted by any county pursuant to sections twenty-
seven hundred and seventy-three-n one to twenty-seven hundred and
seventy-three-n fifty-six, both inclusive, shall not apply to the said
county.

2. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.