CHAPTER 26

An Act to amend and reenact § 19-241.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to the incompetence of certain judicial officers to testify under certain
circumstances.

[H 181]

Approved February 19, 1954
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 19-241.1 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted,
as follows:

§ 19.241.1. No trial justice or assistant trial justice, or clerk of
either, or justice of the peace, or mayor, or other person having the power
to issue warrants or try cases shall be competent to testify in any criminal]
or civil proceeding, except proceedings wherein the defendant is charged
with perjury, as to any matter which shall have come before him in the
course of his official duties as such issuing or trying officer.
An Act to amend and reenact § 16-172.9, as amended, of the Code of
Virginia, relating to certain substitute judges. rH 182)

Approved February 19, 1954
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 16-172.9, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended
and reenacted, as follows:

§ 16-172.9. The judge or judges of each city or county who have
authority to appoint the several juvenile judges shall by proper order of
record appoint, upon the recommendation of the judge of the juvenile and
domestic relations court, as a substitute judge for each judge and asso-
ciate judge of such court, a discreet and competent person or persons and
may at any time revoke the appointment and make a new appointment
in like manner in the event of revocation or of the resignation, death,
absence or disability of a substitute judge. In the event the police justice,
civil justice, civil and police justice, judge of a county court or trial
justice is appointed juvenile and domestic relations court judge, then the
substitute police justice, civil justice, civil and police justice, judge of a
county court or trial justice shall be substitute judge of the juvenile and
domestic relations court. In the event of the absence or disability of the
judge or associate judge of the juvenile and domestic relations court to
perform the duties of his office or the impropriety of his acting, the sub-
stitute judge or judges shall perform the duties and possess the powers
of the judge or judges during such periods and in the event of the resig-
nation, death, removal or permanent disability of the judge or associate
judge the substitute judge or judges shall act until a successor has been
appointed and has qualified. And in addition, the said substitute judge,
endependently, or whether he be acting for the judge of the juvenile and
domestic relations court or not, shall at all times have the same power to
issue warrants and to admit to bail as the said judge of the juvenile and
domestic relations court.

In the event a judge, his associates and their substitutes are dis-
qualified, the judge of a court of record of an adjoining county or city
empowered under § 16-172.4 to appoint judges may upon request of the
disqualified judge appoint a judge of his county or city to hear and
dispose of the matter for the hearing of which the judges were disqualified.