CHAPTER 4

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 17-117 and 17-119 of the Code of Vir-
ginia relating to establishment of circuit courts and judicial circuits.

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Approved February 2, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 17-117 and 17-119 of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows: ;

§ 17-117. For the city of Williamsburg and the county of James City,
for that part of the county of Henrico which is without the corporate
limits of the city of Richmond, for every other county and for each of the
cities of Alexandria, Bristol, Buena Vista, Charlottesville, Clifton Forge,
Fredericksburg, Hopewell, Lynchburg, Martinsville, Newport News, Nor-
folk, Petersburg, Portsmouth, Radford, Richmond, Roanoke, Suffolk and
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Waynesboro, there shall be a circuit court, which shall be called the circuit
court of such county or city, or such city and county, as the case may be.

§ 17-119. The State shall be divided into thirty-seven judicial circuits
as follows:

(1) The county of Norfolk shall constitute the first circuit.

(2) The counties of Nansemond and Southampton and the city of
Suffolk shall constitute the second circuit.

(3) The counties of Prince George, Sussex; Surry, Greensville and
Brunswick and the city of Hopewell shall constitute the third circuit.

(4) The counties of * Dinwiddie, Nottoway, Amelia and Powhatan
and the city of Petersburg shall constitute the fourth circuit. .

(5) The counties of Appomattox, Charlotte, Prince Edward, Bucking-
ham and Cumberland shall constitute the fifth circuit.

(6) The counties of Bedford and Campbell and the city of Lynchburg
shall constitute the sixth circuit.

(7) The counties of * Henry and Patrick and the city of Martinsville
shall constitute the seventh circuit.

(8) The counties of Madison, Greene, Fluvanna and Albemarle and
the city of Charlottesville shall constitute the eighth circuit.

(9) The counties of Culpeper, Orange, Louisa, and Goochland shall
constitute the ninth circuit.

(10) The county of Henrico and the city of Richmond shall constitute
the tenth circuit.

(11) The * cities of Hampton and Newport News shall constitute the
eleventh cireuit.

(12) The counties of Richmond, Northumberland, Westmoreland,
Lancaster and Essex shall constitute the twelfth circuit.

(18) The counties of Gloucester, Mathews, King and Queen, King
William and Middlesex shall constitute the thirteenth circuit.

(14) The counties of New Kent, Charles City, York * and James City
and te cities of Warwick and Williamsburg shall constitute the fourteenth
circuit.

(15) The counties of King George, Stafford, Spotsylvania, Caroline
and allen and the city of Fredericksburg shall constitute the fifteenth
circuit.

(16) The counties of Prince William and Fairfax and the city of
Alexandria shall constitute the sixteenth circuit.

(17) The counties of Frederick, Clarke, Warren and Shenandoah shall
constitute the seventeenth circuit.

(18) The counties of Augusta, Highland and Rockbridge and the city
of Buena Vista shall constitute the eighteenth circuit.

(19) The counties of Bath, Alleghany, Craig and Botetourt and the
city of Clifton Forge shall constitute the nineteenth circuit.

(20) The * county of Roanoke * and the city of Roanoke shall con-
stitute the twentieth circuit.

(21) The counties of Pulaski, Carroll, Wythe and Grayson shall con-
stitute the twenty-first circuit.

(22) The counties of Bland, Tazewell and Giles shall constitute the
twenty-second circuit.

(23) The counties of Washington and Smyth and the city of Bristol
shall constitute the twenty-third circuit.

(24) The counties of Russell and Scott shall constitute the twenty-
fourth circuit.

(25) The counties of Rockingham and Page shall constitute the
twenty-fifth circuit.

(26) The counties of Rappahannock, Fauquier and Loudoun shall con-
stitute the twenty-sixth circuit.
(27) The counties of Buchanan and Dickenson shall constitute the
twenty-seventh circuit.

(28) The counties of Isle of Wight and Princess Anne and the city
of Portsmouth shall constitute the twenty-eighth circuit.

(29) The counties of Amherst and Nelson and * the city of Waynes-
boro shall constitute the twenty-ninth circuit.

(30) The counties of Franklin and Pittsylvania shall constitute the
thirtieth circuit.

(31) The counties of Accomack and Northampton shall constitute the
thirty-first circuit.

(32) The city of Norfolk shall constitute the thirty-second circuit.

; oT The counties of Wise and Lee shall constitute the thirty-third

circui

(34) The counties of Halifax, Mecklenburg and Lunenburg shall con-
stitute the thirty-fourth circuit.

(35) The county of Arlington shall constitute the thirty-fifth circuit.

(36) The counties of Floyd and Montgomery and the city of Radford
shall constitute the thirty-sixth circuit.

. ole” The county of Chesterfield shall constitute the thirty-seventh

circuit.
2. An emergency exists and these sections as amended shall be in force
upon the abolition of the corporation court of the city of Waynesboro.