CHAPTER 526

An Act to amend and reenact § 14-155 of the Code of 1950, relating
to the maximum annual compensation of certain officers so as to
mnclude therein certain other officers inadvertently omitted.

[H 441]

Approved April 2, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

Ha That § 14-155 of the Code of 1950 be amended and reenacted as
ollows:

§ 14-155. Maximum for court clerks, high constables and certain
city sergeants.—The total annual compensation, exclusive of expenses
authorized by the State Compensation Board, of * any officer men-
tioned in § 14-145 shall not exceed the sums hereinafter named, to-wit:

In cities or counties having a population of one hundred thousand or
more, such compensation shall not exceed the sum of seventy-five hundred
dollars per annum; with a population between thirty-eight thousand and
forty thousand such compensation shall not exceed eight thousand five
hundred dollars per annum; with a population between fifty thousand and
one hundred thousand and in counties adjoining cities having a population
of fifty thousand or more, such compensation shall not exceed seven
thousand dollars per annum; with a population between twenty-five thou-
sand and fifty thousand, such compensation shall not exceed six thousand
dollars per annum; with a population between fifteen thousand and
twenty-five thousand, such compensation shall not exceed fifty-five hundred
dollars per annum; and with a population of fifteen thousand or less,
such compensation shall not exceed four thousand five hundred dollars
per annum except in cities of the first class in which it shall not exceed
five thousand dollars per annum exclusive of any compensation allowed
by the respective city councils; and provided, however, that in determin-
ing the compensation allowed to any such officer hereunder any compensa-
tion allowed to such officer by his city council or county board of super-
visors, other than commissions allowed by State law for the discharge of
any duties imposed upon such officer by the council of the city, board of
supervisors of the county, or laws of this State shall be disregarded to the
extent of: (a) Twenty-five hundred dollars in cities or counties having a
population of fifty thousand or more and in counties adjoining cities
having a population of fifty thousand or more, (b) fifteen hundred dollars
in cities and counties with a population between twenty-five thousand and
fifty thousand, and (c) one thousand dollars in cities and counties with a
population of twenty-five thousand or less. Provided that when, in any city
having a population in excess of one hundred thousand, any person serves
as clerk of more than one court of record in such city he shall annually
receive, in addition to the compensation to which he is entitled as clerk of
any court of record in such city, not to exceed one thousand dollars addi-
tional for each other such court of which he is clerk. Provided, further,
that in any county having a density of population in excess of four thou-
sand persons to a square mile, any person who serves as clerk of any court
of record having two or more regularly appointed or elected judges and/or
serves as clerk of more than one court, whether the same be a court of
record or otherwise, he shall receive annually, in addition to the compensa-
tion to which he is entitled as court clerk in such county, not to exceed one
thousand dollars additional for each judge, in excess of one, of a court of
record for which he acts as clerk and one thousand dollars additional for
each other statutory court of which he is clerk, whether the same be a
court of record or otherwise. Provided, further, that in any county having
a population in excess of ninety-nine thousand and containing an even
number of magisterial districts, such compensation shall not exceed eight
thousand five hundred dollars.

2. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.