CHAPTER 259

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 17-186 of the Code of 1950,
relating to corporation or hustings courts in certain cities
so as to designate a certain court.

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Approved April 3, 1950

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 17-136 of the Code of 1950 be amended and re-
enacted as follows:

§ 17-136. Corporation or hustings courts in certain cities.
—The corporation or hustings courts established and existing
the day before this Code takes effect in each of the above-
named cities of the first class, are continued with the same name
under which they have been previously known, and shall be
taken and deemed to be the corporation courts required by the
constitution to be established in such cities.

The corporation or hustings court of the city of Roanoke,
by whatever name heretofore known or called, shall be here-
after named and called the Hustings Court of the city of
Roanoke.

The corporation or hustings court of the city of Portsmouth
by whatever name known or called shall be hereafter named
and called “The Court of Hustings for the City of Portsmouth’’.

The corporation court established and existing the day
before this Code takes effect in the city of Radford, a city of
the second class, is continued under the name of the corporation
court of such city and shall be so known and held until the same
shall be abolished by a vote of the people of such city, as pro-
vided in the Constitution.

Each of such courts shall be held by a judge with like quali-
fications and elected in the same manner as judges of the
Supreme Court of Appeals.