CHAPTER 577

An Act to amend and reenact § 19-121.1, as amended, of the Code of
Virginia, relating to special justices in certain counttes. rH 702}

Approved March 31, 1960

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 19-121.1, as amended, 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 appoint-
ments 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 performing 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 and shall have general power to
suspend any special justice without pay for a period not to exceed twenty
days for any breach of rules or procedures, provided, however, that said
power of suspension shall not be exercised unless and until an order of the
circuit court has been entered delegating to the judge of the county court
such general discretionary power of suspension and setting forth therein
provision for review by the circuit court of any abuse of such discretion.
The salaries of special justices shall be fixed and paid by the governing
body of the county, in which event all fees collected by 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.