CHAPTER 312

An Act to amend and reenact § 14-51 of the Code of Virginia, as amended,
relating to salaries of trial justices.
[S 363]
Approved March 11, 1952
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 14-51 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, be amended and

reenacted as follows:
§ 14-51. Limits for salaries——The annual salaries of trial justices in
counties of the Commonwealth shall be within the limits hereinafter
prescribed, that is to say:

In counties having a population of ten thousand inhabitants * or less,
such salaries shall be not less than nine hundred dollars nor more than
eighteen hundred dollars.

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

ollars.

In counties having a population of more than twenty thousand inhab-
itants but not more than twenty-five thousand inhabitants, such salaries
— be not less than one thousand dollars nor more than three thousand

ollars.

In counties having a population of more than twenty-five thousand
inhabitants but not more than thirty thousand inhabitants and, without
regard to population, in counties having an area of more than two hundred
thirteen square miles and not more than two hundred twenty-three square
miles, such salaries shall not be less than fifteen hundred dollars nor more
than thirty-five hundred dollars.

In counties having a population of more than thirty thousand inhab-
itants but not more than forty thousand inhabitants, such salaries shall
not be less than two thousand dollars nor more than four thousand dollars.

In counties having a population of more than forty thousand inhab-
itants but not more than fifty thousand inhabitants, such salaries shall
not be less than two thousand dollars nor more than four thousand five
hundred dollars.

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

Whenever a trial justice is such for two or more counties, or for a
county and city combined, the aggregate population of such political sub-
divisions shall be the population for the purpose of arriving at the classi-
fication of such trial justice under the provisions of this section.

For the purpose of this section, the population of each county shall
be according to the last preceding United States census; provided that
in any case in which it shall be shown to the satisfaction of the committee
that the adoption of such census will result in an injustice to any trial
justice, the committee may accept an estimate of such population based
upon evidence satisfactory to the committee.

Provided, however, the Committee of Judges shall have the power
and authority in their discretion, when it shall be made to appear to them
that because of the case load and type of cases disposed of an injustice is
imposed upon the trial justice, to increase the maximum salary of the trial
justice, regardless of the maximum heretofore provided, to such sum as
the said Committee shall deem adequate, but in no case shall such adjust-
ment be in excess of one thousand dollars above the maximum such trial
justice may be paid under the law as it existed on January one, nineteen
hundred fifty-two.