CHAPTER 366

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 14-66 of the Code of 1950,
relating to salary of attorneys for the Commonwealth.
[ H 366 ]
Approved April 5, 1950

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 14-66 of the Code of 1950 be amended and reenacted
as follows:

; § 14-66. Commonwealth’s attorneys.—The annual salaries
of attorneys for the Commonwealth shall be within the limits
hereinafter prescribed, that is to say:

In counties having a population of five thousand inhabi-
tants or less, such salaries shall not be less than seven hundred
dollars nor more than * sixteen hundred dollars.

In counties having a population of more than five thousand
inhabitants but not more than ten thousand inhabitants, such
salaries shall not be less than six hundred dollars nor more
than eighteen hundred dollars.

In counties having a population of more than ten thousand
inhabitants but not more than twenty thousand inhabitants,
such salaries shall not be less than one thousand dollars nor
more than twenty-five hundred dollars.

In counties having a population of more than twenty thou-
sand inhabitants but not more than twenty-five thousand inhabi-
tants, such salaries shall not be less than one thousand dollars
nor more than four thousand dollars.

In counties having a population of more than twenty-five
thousand inhabitants but not more than thirty thousand inhabi-
tants, such salaries shall not be less than fifteen hundred dollars
nor more than four thousand dollars.
In counties having a population of more than thirty thou-
sand inhabitants but not more than fifty thousand inhabitants,
such salaries shall not be less than two thousand nor more than
four thousand dollars.

In counties having a population of more than fifty thousand
inhabitants, such salaries shall not be less than three thousand
dollars nor more than five thousand dollars.

In cities of the second class having a population of ten
thousand inhabitants or less such salaries shall not be less than
six hundred dollars nor more than eighteen hundred dollars.

In cities of the first class having a population of ten thou-
sand inhabitants or less, such salaries shall not be less than six
hundred dollars nor more than twenty-four hundred dollars.

In cities having a population of more than ten thousand
inhabitants but not more than twenty-five thousand inhabitants,
such salaries shall not be less than six hundred dollars nor more
than four thousand dollars.

In cities having a population of more than twenty-five thou-
sand inhabitants but not more than fifty thousand inhabitants,
such salaries shall not be less than twenty-five hundred dollars
nor more than six thousand dollars.

In cities having a population of more than fifty thousand
inhabitants but not more than one hundred thousand inhabi-
tants, such salaries shall not be less than six thousand nor more
than seventy-five hundred dollars.

In cities having a population of more than one hundred
thousand inhabitants, and in counties having a population of
more than two thousand inhabitants per square mile, such sala-
ries shall not be less than six thousand dollars nor more than
eighty-five hundred dollars.

But nothing herein contained shall prevent the council of
any city having a population of more than one hundred and
twenty-five thousand from supplementing the salary of the
attorney for the Commonwealth in such city for additional
services not required by general law, provided that any such
supplemental salary shall be paid wholly by such city.

Whenever an attorney for the Commonwealth is such for
a county and city together, or for two or more cities, the aggre-
gate population of such political subdivisions shall be the popu-
lation for the purpose of arriving at the classification of such
attorney for the Commonwealth under the provisions of this
section.

Each assistant attorney for the Commonwealth, heretofore
authorized by law, if his services shall be deemed necessary by
the compensation board, shall receive an annual salary of not
more than two-thirds of the salary received by the attorney
for the Commonwealth of his county or city.
On and after July one, nineteen hundred forty-eight, the
maximum salary applicable to each officer whose salary 1S
prescribed by this section shall be raised by twenty per centum
for those officers authorized to receive a maximum salary of
five thousand dollars, and by ten per centum and not to exceed
five hundred dollars for those officers authorized by law to
receive a maximum salary in excess of five thousand dollars but
such increase shall not operate to raise any such salary by more
than one thousand dollars a year.