CHAPTER 117

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 12.01 as amended, of Chapter 536 of the
Acts of Assembly of 1950, approved April 7, 1950, which chapter
provided a new charter for the city of Alexandria, the section re-
lating to the municipal court of the city of Alexandria. 811

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Approved February 25, 1958
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 12.01 as amended, of Chapter 536 of the Acts of Assembly
of 1950, approved April 7, 1950, be amended and reenacted as follows:
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§ 12.01. (a) There shall be a single municipal court designated the
Muntcipal Court of the City of Alexandria, which shall exercise both civil
and criminal jurisdiction, and which court shall have two judges ap-
pointed by the judges of the Corporation Court for the City of Alexandria
for terms of siz ‘years, commencing January one, nineteen hundred sixty-
two, and every six years thereafter. The judges in office when this amend-
ment to the city charter takes effect shall continue in office until January
one, nineteen hundred sixty-two.

(b) The judge who is senior in point of continuous service, or af
neither is an incumbent, who is senior in active law practice in Virginia,
shall be the senior judge and shall have authority to assign the work of
the court as between the judges, but no order of court shall be necessary
to establish the authority of either judge to act. The senior judge ex-
clusively shall exercise all powers of appointment conferred upon judges
of municipal courts except appointments incidental to the trial, hearing
or disposition of any cause or action to be determined or acted upon by the
court, which powers shall be exercised concurrently by the judges.

(c) Each judge shall receive an annual salary of not less than eight
thousand dollars to be paid in monthly installments out of the treasury
of the city. The city council shall make provision for such salaries and
in fixing salaries may take into consideration additional pay to the senior
judge for the additional duties imposed upon him.

(d) There shall be appointed by the judges of the Corporation Court
of the City as many substitute judges as the said Corporation Court
judges may determine to be necessary, but not more than four.

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