CHAPTER 596

An Act to amend and reenact § 15-388, as amended, of the Code of Virginia,
relating to the appointment of certain officers in certain counties.

[H 706]
Approved March 31, 1962

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 15-338, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 15-338. The following officers shall not, except as herein otherwise
provided, be affected by the adoption of either the county executive form
or the county manager form:

(1) Jury commissioners,
(2) Notaries public,

(3) County electoral boards,

(4) Registrars,

(5) Judges and clerks of elections, and

(6) Justices of the peace; provided, however, that in any county
which adopts either the county executive form or the county manager
form there shall be appointed or elected in the manner provided by law
not to exceed one justice of the peace in each magisterial district; In any
magisterial district, in which at the time either of the forms of organization
and government is adopted there is more than one justice of the peace or
no justice of the peace the judge of the circuit court of the county shall
appoint one such justice, who shall hold office until his successor shall be
elected or appointed and qualified; the terms of the other justices of the
peace in such magisterial district shall expire when the appointee takes
office; provided further, that in any county adopting and operating under
the county manager form which adjoins a city, lying wholly in the
Commonwealth of Virginia, having a population of two hundred * thousand
or more, the judge of the circuit court of such county may, if he deems the
same necessary or expedient, appoint not more than two additional justices
of the peace in each magisterial district in the county, and in any county
having an area of not less than sixty nor more than eighty square miles
and in any county adopting or operating under the county executive form
of organization and government the judge of the circuit court of the
county may if he deems the same necessary or expedient appoint not less
than one nor more than three justices of the peace for each magisterial
district in the county, to serve during the pleasure of the judge of the
court, and each justice of the peace so appointed shall give bond and
qualify as prescribed by law for justices of the peace elected by the people.