CHAPTER 434

An Act to amend and reenact § 17-41 as amended, of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to certain days on which clerks’ offices to be kept
open so as to permit the closing thereof on certain days in certain
cities and counties.

[S 372]

Approved April 1, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 17-41 as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 17-41. The clerk’s office of every court shall be kept open on every
day, except Sunday, the Fourth of July, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas
pay 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 thousand or
more, between eighty and ninety thousand population, and in cities having
a population of not less than fifty thousand nor more than sixty 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;

(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; and

(5) The judge of the circuit court of any county having a popula-
tion of more than one thousand per square mile according to the last
preceding United States census, or the judge of any circuit, hustings or
corporation court of any city or county adjoining any such county, or
any of them, may authorize the clerk to close the office on Saturday.

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 dur-
ing convenient hours on all the days on which it is herein required to be
kept open.