CHAPTER 550

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 17-41 of the Code of 1950, relating
to certain days on which clerks’ offices are to be kept open, so
as to include certain cities in a special provision.

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Approved April 7, 1950

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 17-41 of the Code of 1950 be amended and reenacted
as follows:

§ 17-41. Clerks’ offices to be kept open on certain days.—The
clerk’s office of every court shall be kept open on every day, except
Sunday, the Fourth of July, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day
during convenient hours, for the transaction of business; provided
that:

(1) In cities it may be closed on New Year’s Day, Memorial
Day, Labor Day and Armistice Day, and the judge of the circuit
court of any county may authorize the clerk to close the office on
any such day or days;

(2) The judge of any circuit or corporation court, with the
approval of the governing body of the county or city, as the case
may be, may authorize the clerk to close the office on Saturday at
one o’clock, post meridian;

(3) In cities having a population of one hundred forty thous-
and or more, and in cities having a population of not less than
fifty thousand nor more than strty thousand, the clerk’s office of
any court may be closed on all days which are made legal holidays
under the provisions of § 2-19; and

(4) The judge of the circuit court of any county adjoining
a city having a population of one hundred forty thousand or more,
may authorize the clerk to close the office on all days which are
made legal holidays under the provisions of § 2-19.
The judge of the circuit court of any county may require the
clerk’s office to be kept open continuously for the transaction of
business during convenient hours on all the days on which it is
herein required to be kept open.