Chap. 34.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 22 of Chapter 396 of the Acts
of Assembly of 1940, approved April 1, 1940, the chapter relating to County
Board Form of government, and the section relating to certain officers under
this form of county government. {H 110]

Approved February 19, 1944

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section twenty-two of Chapter three hundred ninety-six ot
the Acts of Assembly of nineteen hundred forty, approved April first,
nineteen hundred forty, be amended and re-enacted, as follows:

Section 22. (a) The following officers shall not, except as herein
otherwise provided, be affected by the adoption of the county board form:
(1) jury commissioners; (2) examiners of records; (3) notaries public:
(4) county electoral boards; (5) registrars; (6) judges and clerks ot
elections; (7) county coroner; (8) trial justice; and (9) justices ot
the peace, except as provided in subsection (b) of this section.

(b) In any county which adopts the county board form there shall
be appointed or elected in the manner provided by law not to exceed one
justice of the peace in each magisterial district; provided that in any
magisterial district in which there is located a beach resort there shall be
so elected or appointed two justices of the peace; in any magisterial dis-
trict in which at the time this form of organization and government 1s
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 successor is elected or appointed and quali-
fed; the terms of the other justices of the peace in such magisterial dis-
trict shall expire when the appointee takes office. The term “justice of
the peace’ as used in this subsection does not embrace or mean the office
of trial justice or substitute trial justice.

(c) Provisions of law in conflict with the county board form of
county organization and government adopted by any county pursuant to
sections one to twenty-three, both inclusive, of this act, shall not apply
to such county.