Chap. 423.—An ACT to amend and reenact Section 12-a, as amended, of Chapter
364 of the Acts of Assembly of 1934, approved March 29, 1934, the section
relating to appeals from the Compensation Board. [H 332]

Approved April 1, 1948

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia: ;

t section twelve-a, as amended, of chapter three hundred
sixty-four of the Acts of Assembly of nineteen hundred thirty-four,
approved March twenty-nine, nineteen hundred thirty-four, be amended
and reenacted as follows:

Section 12-a. Appeals.—Any officer whose salary or expenses of
office are affected by any decision of the Board under this act, or any
county or city affected thereby, or the Attorney General as representative
of the Commonwealth, shall have the right to appeal from any such
decision of the Board, within forty-five days from the date of such
decision. Such appeal shall lie to the circuit court of the county or
corporation court of the city wherein the officer making the appeal
resides. The court shall be presided over by the judge of the court to
which the appeal is taken and two other judges of circuit or corporation
courts remote from that to which the appeal is taken, designated by the
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals and the clerk of the
court to which the appeal is taken shall notify the Chief Justice of
such appeal. Notice of such appeal shall be given within the time
above specified by any such officer to the Compensation Board and
the Attorney General. The appeal shall be heard within thirty days from
the date the same is taken, At least fifteen days’ notice of the time and
place set for the hearing shall be given the officer noting such appeal,
the Compensation Board and the Attorney General. On such appeal
all questions involved in said decision shall be heard de novo by the
court, and its decision on all questions shall be certified by the clerk
thereof to the officer affected and to the chairman of the Compensation
Board. From the decision of the court there shall be no right of further
appeal.