CHAPTER 304

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

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Approved March 17, 1954
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

at:

(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 ap-
proval 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, * and in cities having a population of not less than * eighty thou-
sand nor more than * ninety thousand, the clerk’s office of any court may
be Sein on all days which are made legal holidays under the provisions
0 -1o;

(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; *

(5) The judge of the circuit court of any county having a population
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, and

(6) In cities having a population of one hundred thousand or more
and in counties adjoining said cities, and, in cities having a population
of more than eighty thousand but less than one hundred thousand, and,
in cities having a population of more than thirty-eight thousand but less
than forty thousand, the clerk’s office of any court of record may be
closed on Saturday when authorized by the judge of the court.

(7) In cities having a population of more than thirty thousand but
less than thirty-five thousand and sixty according to the last decennial
census, the clerk’s office of any court of record may be closed on Satur-
day, when authorized by the judge of the court and the governing body
of the city.

(8) In counties having a population of more than thirty-three thou-
sand five hundred, but less than thirty-four thousand, the clerk may
close the office on Saturday at twelve o’clock, noon.

Whenever the authorization of the judge is necessary to close a
clerk’s office and a clerk is the clerk of more than one court, or a court
has more than one judge, the authorization of all such judges shall be
necessary.

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

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