CHAPTER 315

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 19.01, 19.07, 19.11 and 19.13 of Chapter
823 of the Acts of Assembly of 1950, approved April 4, 1950, pro-
viding a charter for the city of Falls Church, which sections relate
to the civil and police justice.

[S 378]

Approved March 11, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 19.01, 19.07, 19.11 and 19.13 of the Acts of Assembly of
1950, approved April 4, 1950, be amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 19.01. The council shall elect at the first regular meeting of the
council in September 1950 and every three years thereafter, a civil and
police justice, who shall be judge of the Municipal Court of the city of
Falls Church. He shall be an attorney at law licensed to practice under
the laws of the Commonwealth but he need not be a resident of the city.

§ 19.07. He shall keep a regular account of all fees, fines, forfeitures
and costs imposed or arising in the administration of his office in both
civil and criminal matters, which he shall report to the auditor, at such
intervals and in such form as the council may require. The said civil
and police justice or the clerk of the * municipal court, if such officer
is appointed, or such other person as the council may designate for that
purpose, shall collect all fines, forfeitures and costs imposed in said court
and report to the auditor monthly such as have accrued to the city, and
pay the same to the city treasurer not later than the fifth day of the
next succeeding month in which collected, and shall segregate and trans-
mit to the State Treasurer all fines and forfeitures accruing to the Com-
monwealth.

§ 19.11. The city clerk shall be clerk of the * Municipal Court of the
city of Falls Church as provided in § 4.04 of this charter, unless other-
wise provided by the council pursuant to §§ 4.02 (a), 4.02 (b) and 4.02
(c) of this charter, and shall perform such duties and receive such com-
pensation as the council may by ordinance prescribe. He shall give such
bond as the council may by ordinance require and qualify by taking the
oath required by law of public officers.

§ 19.13. The council may elect a special justice of the peace, who
shall at time of election possess the same qualifications of the civil and
police justice, to be known as the judge of the juvenile and domestic
relations* branch of the Municipal Court of the city of Falls Church,
who shall hold office for a term of two years from the day of his election,
and until his successor has been elected and has qualified, unless sooner
removed as provided by general law. He shall have and possess all the
ority and jurisdiction given judges of juvenile and domestic relations
ts by general law, provided, that the council may designate the civil
police justice or the substitute civil and police justice to act as the
re of the juvenile and domestic relations court. The judge of the
nile and domestic relations court shall receive such compensation as
council may by ordinance or resolution prescribe. He shall take the
prescribed by law and give such bond as the council may require.
he event of the election of the juvenile and domestic relations judge
shall not be the civil and police justice, the civil and police justice
l be senior judge of the Municipal Court of the city of Falls Church.