CHAPTER 212

An Act to amend and reenact § 19-121.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to special justices in certain counties. OT 866)

Approved March 7, 1958

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 19-121.1 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
as follows:

§ 19-121.1. The judges of the circuit court of any county having a
density of population in excess of five thousand per square mile may from
time to time appoint as many special justices for such county as * they
deem necessary or proper to perform the duties and exercise the powers set
out herein. The terms of office of all such special justices * including those
now in office shall expire on March one, nineteen hundred fifty-nine and on
March one of each fourth year thereafter. Such appointments shall be
revocable at the pleasure of the appointing * authority. Such special justices
shall qualify in the same manner as is prescribed by law for justices of the
peace, and shall be conservators of the peace within the county for which
they are appointed. They * shall exercise within such county all the power
and authority which is conferred upon justices of the peace by general law
except the power to issue civil processes. When any Court Violations
Bureau shall be duly established in any such county, then such special
justices shall also be employees of such county for the purpose of perform-
ing the duties and functions of such Bureau and shall be subject to all such
general administrative regulations governing county employees as may be
reasonably applied to such special justices and the judge of the county
court of such county shall have the power of the chief administrative
officer of such bureau. The salaries of * special justices shall be fixed and
pala by the governing body of the county, in which event all fees collected

y such justices or to which they shall be entitled shall be paid monthly
into the county treasury and used as far as possible to pay such salaries.
After the appointment of such special justices for a county, no justice of
the peace shall thereafter be elected or appointed for such county.