CHAPTER 497

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 15-338 of the Code of 1950, relating
to certain officers in counties operating under certain forms of
county government.

[S 361]

Approved April 7, 1950

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 15-338 of the Code of 1950 be amended and reenacted
as follows:

§ 15-338. Officers not affected by adoption of either plan.—
The following officers shall not, except as herein otherwise provided,
be affected by the adoption of either the county executive form or
the county manager form:

(1) Jury commissioners,

(2) Notaries public,

(3) County electoral boards,

(4) Registrars,

(5) Judges and clerks of elections, and

(6) Justices of the peace; provided, however, that in any
county which adopts either the county executive form or the
county manager 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; in any magisterial district, in which at
the time either of the forms of organization and government is
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 such justice, who shall hold office until his successor
shall be elected or appointed and qualified; the terms of the other
justices of the peace in such magisterial district shall expire when
the appointee takes office; provided further, that in any county
adopting and operating under the county manager form which ad-
joins a city, lying wholly in the Commonwealth of Virginia, having
a population of one hundred seventy thousand or more, the judge
of the circuit court of such county may, if he deems the same
necessary or expedient, appoint an additional justice of the peace
for each magisterial district in the county, and in any county hav-
ing an area of not less than sixty nor more than eighty square
miles and in any county adopting or operating under the county
ewecutwe form of organization and government the judge of the cir-
cuit court of the county may if he deems the same necessary or
expedient appoint not less than one nor more than three justices
of the peace for each magisterial district in the county, to serve
during the pleasure of the judge of the court, and each justice of
the peace so appointed shall give bond and qualify as prescribed
by law for justices of the peace elected by the people.