CHAPTER 405

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 17-15 and 17-18 of the Code of Virginia,
relating to places of sessions of circuit and corporation courts.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 17-15 and 17-18 of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 17-15. Whenever, in the opinion of a circuit or corporation court,
or the judge thereof, the courthouse or other place wherein it is required
to hold its session, cannot, or should not, from any cause, be occupied by
it, or if the same shall be destroyed, or is being repaired, renovated, or
enlarged by addition thereto, the court may hold its session at such places
within the limits of the judicial circuit of which the said circuit court 18
L constituent part or the limits of the corporation of which the said cor-
poration court is the court as may be appointed by its order, or by the
warrant of the judge thereof in vacation, directed to its clerk, until the
courthouse or its lawful place of session can or should be thereafter
occupied, or until another shall be built and fitted for its occupation, or
until such repairs, renovations or additions be completed, or until some
other place be appointed by the court.

§ 17-18. No such place of session for a circuit or corporation court
shall be without the limits of the county or corporation of which it is
the court, except as provided in § 17-15 of the Code of Virginia. And when
such place is appointed because of the destruction of the building in which
the Supreme Court of Appeals or Special Court of Appeals was held, the
new place of session shall be within the same city or town with the old.

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