An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
Volume 1968 Law 99
Law Body
CHAPTER 194
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 17-119 and 17-119.1, as amended, of
the Code of Virginia, relating to judicial circuits and additional judges
in certain judicial circuits.
[H 140]
Approved March 7, 1960
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §§ 17-119 and 17-119.1, as amended, of the Code of Virginia,
be amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 17-119. The State shall be divided into * 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, Buck-
ingham and Cumberland shall constitute the fifth circuit.
(6) The counties of Bedford and Campbell and the city of Lynchburg
shall constitute the sixth circuit. oo,
(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 circuit, provided that after July one, nineteen hundred and sixty,
the city of Hampton shall constitute the eleventh circuit.
(12) The counties of Richmond, Northumberland, Westmoreland, Lan-
caster 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 the cities of Warwick and Williamsburg shall constitute the four-
teenth circuit, provided that after July one, nineteen hundred and fifty-
eight, the counties of New Kent, Charles City, York and James City and
the cities of Newport News and Williamsburg shall constitute the four-
teenth circuit until July one, nineteen hundred and sixty, when the city
of Newport News will cease to be a part of the fourteenth circuit.
(15) The counties of King George, Stafford, Spotsylvania, Caroline
and Hanover 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 constitute
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) Until March fifteen, nineteen hundred fifty-eight, the counties of
Russell and Scott shall constitute the twenty-fourth circuit, provided that
on and after March fifteen, nineteen hundred fifty-eight, the counties of
Lee 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
constitute the twenty-sixth circuit.
(27) Until March fifteen, nineteen hundred fifty-eight, the counties
of Buchanan and Dickenson shall constitute the twenty-seventh circuit,
provided that on and after March fifteen, nineteen hundred fifty-eight,
the counties of Buchanan, Dickenson and Russell shall constitute the
twenty-seventh circuit.
(28) The counties of Princess Anne and Isle of Wight * shall con-
stitute the twenty-eighth circuit.
(29) The counties of Amherst and Nelson and the city of Waynesboro
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.
(33) Until March fifteen, nineteen hundred fifty-eight, the counties
of Wise and Lee shall constitute the thirty-third circuit, provided that on
and after March fifteen, nineteen hundred fifty-eight, the county of Wise
shall constitute the thirty-third circuit.
(34) The counties of Halifax, Mecklenburg and Lunenburg shall
constitute 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.
37) The county of Chesterfield shall constitute the thirty-seventh
circuit.
(38) On and after July 1, nineteen hundred sixty, the city of
Portsmouth shall constitute the thirty-eighth circuit. The judge of the
twenty-eighth judicial circuit residing in the city of Portsmouth on July
one, nineteen hundred sixty, shall be the judge of the thirty-eighth judicial
circuit for the balance of the term for which elected as judge of the
twenty-eighth judicial circuit and shall forthwith relinquish his office as
gudge of the twenty-eighth judicial circuit.
Should the federal census of nineteen hundred and sixty or other cen-
sus provided for by law disclose that the counties of Hanover and Caroline
have a combined population in excess of forty thousand inhabitants then
the senior judge of the fifteenth circuit shall enter an order in the circuit
courts of both of such counties setting out such fact. A certified copy of
such order shall be transmitted by the clerk of each such court to the
Secretary of the Commonwealth, who shall file and preserve the same in
the records of his office and shall report to the Governor at once the fact
that such counties have a combined population in excess of forty thousand,
as disclosed by such census. The Governor, upon receiving such report,
shall at once make proclamation of such fact, copies of which proclamation
shall be certified to the clerks of each of the courts then constituting the
fifteenth judicial circuit who shall endorse thereon the date when received
and record the same in the common-law order books of such courts.
After such proclamation has been recorded in the manner herein-
above provided, the counties of Hanover and Caroline shall constitute the
fifteenth judicial circuit, and the counties of King George, Stafford and
Spotsylvania and the city of Fredericksburg shall become and constitute
a new judicial circuit, designated and known as the thirty-*ninth circuit.
In such event, the Governor shall designate which of the judges
of the fifteenth judicial circuit shall continue to be the judge of that circuit,
and which of such judges shall be the judge of the new thirty-*ninth
judicial circuit composed of the counties of King George, Stafford and
Spotsylvania and the city of Fredericksburg.
§ 17-119.1. (a) For each judicial circuit consisting wholly of a
county having a density of population, according to the last preceding
United States census, of more than two thousand persons per square
mile, and (b) for each judicial circuit adjoining such circuit, an additional
circuit court judge shall be chosen who shall during his tenure reside
within the circuit and whose compensation and powers, except as herein-
after provided, shall be the same as now and hereafter prescribed for cir-
cuit judges, provided, however, that in each of the aforesaid judicial
circuits having an additional circuit court judge, (c) there shall be
chosen for each, respectively, another additional circuit court judge who
shall, during his tenure, reside within the circuit and whose compensation
and powers, except as hereinafter provided, shall be the same as now and
hereafter prescribed for circuit judges or additional judges, as the case
may be. (d) For each judicial circuit containing a city incorporated since
the last preceding United States census and having a population of more
than thirty-eight thousand but less than forty thousand, and (e) * on and
after July one, nineteen hundred sixty, for each judicial circuit containing
a city having a population of more than two hundred thirty thousand and
a county contiguous thereto having a population of more than fifty-seven
thousand, an additional circuit judge shall be chosen who shall during his
tenure reside within the circuit and whose compensation and powers,
except as hereinafter provided, shall be the same as now and hereafter
prescribed for circuit judges. The office, and vacancies occurring therein,
shall be filled in the manner and for the term provided by general law for
the filling of vacancies in the office of judges of circuit courts or for
choosing the judge when a new or additional circuit has been created.
On and after March fifteen, nineteen hundred fifty-eight (f) for each
judicial circuit containing a city having a population of more than twelve
thousand one hundred but less than twelve thousand two hundred and
(g) for each judicial circuit containing a city having a population of more
than ten thousand two hundred but less than ten thousand three hundred,
and (h) for each judicial circuit containing a county having a population
of more than thirty-five thousand five hundred but less than thirty-six
thousand, and on and after January one, nineteen hundred fifty-nine, (i)
for each judicial circuit consisting only of a single city, there shall be an
additional circuit Judge who shall during his tenure reside within the
circuit and whose compensation and powers, except as hereinafter pro-
vided, shall be the same as now and hereafter prescribed for circuit judges.
The office, and vacancies occurring therein, shall be filled in the manner
and for the term provided by general law for the filling of vacancies in
the office of judges of circuit courts or for choosing the judge when a new
or additional circuit has been created.
On and after July one, nineteen hundred sixty, (7) for each judicial
circuit containing a county having a population of more than forty-two
thousand but less than forty-five thousand, there shall be an additional
circuit judge who shall during his tenure ‘reside within the circuit and
whose compensation and powers, except as hereinafter provided, shall be
the same as now and hereafter prescribed for circuit judges. The office,
and vacancies occurring therein, shall be filled in the manner and for the
term provided by general law for the filling of vacancies in the office of
judges of circuit courts or for choosing the judge when a new or ad-
ditional circuit has been created.
In any such judicial circuit where an additional judge is authorized
and chosen under the provisions hereof, the judge who is senior in point of
service as judge of the circuit for which he is so chosen shall be the
senior judge of the circuit and shall have authority to assign the work
of the circuit as between judges, but no order of court shall be necessary
to establish the authority of either judge to act.
Except as hereinafter provided, the senior judge shall exclusively
exercise all powers of appointment conferred upon circuit judges, except
the appointment of guardians ad litem, guardians for infants, guardians
or committees for insane or incompetents, receivers, personal representa-
tives, counsel for indigents and any other appointment incident 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.
In each judicial circuit consisting wholly of a county having a density
of population of more than two thousand persons per square mile, the
senior judge and any additional judge or judges thereof shall exercise
jointly all powers of appointment conferred upon circuit judges, except
the appointment of guardians ad litem, guardians for infants, guardians
or committees for insane or incompetents, receivers, personal representa-
tives, counsel for indigents and any other appointment incident 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. Appointments by such judges on matters relating to such joint
exercise of powers of appointment shall be in accordance with a majority
vote of all such judges. In the event they are not able to obtain a majority
the senior judge may make the appointment.
2. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.