CHAPTER 179

AN ACT to provide for the selection of an additional corporation
court judge for certain cities, his powers, and jurisdiction.
[S 160]

Approved March 14, 1950

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, as follows:

§ 1. In any city containing 60,000 inhabitants or more, in
which there is a corporation court, an additional corporation court
judge shall be chosen, provided the Supreme Court of Appeals of
Virginia certifies to the Governor that conditions warrant the ap-
pointment of such judge. The Governor, thereupon shall make an
appointment to fill such vacancy until the General Assembly con-
venes, and 20 days thereafter. Such judge shall, during his tenure,
reside within the corporate limits of said city and his compensation,
powers, duties, and jurisdiction, except as hereinafter provided,
shall be the same as now or hereafter conferred or imposed upon
corporation courts and the judges thereof by general law or by
any statute applicable to any such city. After the first appoint-
ment hereunder, the office and vacancies occurring therein shall
be filled in the same manner and for the same term provided by
general law.

§ 2. In any such city where an additional corporation court
judge is authorized and chosen under the provisions hereof, the
corporation court judge who. is senior in point of service on the
corporation court bench shall be the senior judge of the corpora-
tion court of the city and shall have authority to assign the work
of said corporation court as between the said judges, but no order
of court shall be necessary to establish the authority of either
judge to act.

§ 3. The senior judge shall exercise exclusively all powers of
appointment conferred upon corporation court judges, except the
appointment of guardians ad litem, guardians for infants, guard-
lans or committees for insane or incompetent persons, executors,
administrators, curators, personal representatives, receivers, coun-
sel for indigent persons and any other appointments incident to
the trial, hearing or disposition of any suit in chancery, action at
law or judicial proceeding to be determined or acted upon by said
corporation court, which said powers shall be exercised by either
of the said judges.