CHAPTER 646

An Act to amend and reenact § 17-187.2 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to an additional judge for the corporation court in certain cities.
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Approved April 4, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia: ,

1. That § 17-137.2 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
as follows:

§ 17-137.2. Additional judge for corporation court in certain cities.
—In any city containing sixty thousand inhabitants or more, in which
there is a corporation court, an additional corporation court judge shall be
chosen, provided the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia certifies to the
Governor that conditions warrant the appointment of such judge. The
Governor, thereupon shall make an appointment to fill such vacancy until
the General Assembly convenes, and twenty days thereafter. Such judge
shall, during his tenure, reside within the corporate limits of said city and
his compensation, powers, duties, and jurisdiction, except as hereinafter
provided, shall be the same as now or hereafter conferred or imposed upon
corporation courts and the judges thereof by general law or by any statute
applicable to any such city. After the first appointment hereunder, the
office and vacancies occurring therein shall be filled in the same manner
and for the same term provided by general law. In any city containing
sixty thousand inhabitants or more and adjoining a county having a density
of population of more than two thousand persons per square mile in which
there is a corporation court, an additional corporation court judge shall be
chosen who shall, during his tenure, reside within the corporate limits of
said city and whose compensation, powers, duties, and jurisdiction, except
as hereinafter provided, shall be the same as now or hereafter conferred or
imposed upon corporation courts and the judges thereof by general law
or by any statute applicable to any such city. The office, and vacancies
occurring therein, shall be filled in the same manner and for the same
term provided by general law applicable to the filling of vacancies in the
office of judge of circuit courts.