CHAPTER 9

An Act to amend and reenact § 19.1-32.1 of the Code of Virginia (enacted
as § 19-121.1 by Chapter 577, Acts of Assembly, 1960, approved
March 31, 1960), relating to certain special justices, so as to permit
such justices to be appointed in certain cities.

[H 95]

Approved February 8, 1962

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 19.1-82.1 of the Code of Virginia (enacted as Chapter 577,
Acts of Assembly, 1960, approved March 31, 1960) be amended and
reenacted, as follows:

§ 19.1-32.1. The judges of the circuit court of any county having a
density of population in excess of five thousand per square mile or the
judges of the corporation court of any city having an area of not more
than sixteen square miles and a population of more than ninety thousand
may from time to time appoint as many special justices for such county or
city 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 or city for which they are appointed. They shall exercise within
such county or city all the power and authority which is conferred upon
justices of the peace by general law except the power to issue civil proc-
esses. When any court violations bureau shall be duly established in any
such county or city, then such special justices shall also be employees of
such county or city, for the purpose of performing the duties and func-
tions of such bureau and shall be subject to all such general administrative
regulations governing county or city employees as may be reasonably
applied to such special justices and the judge of the * court not of record
having criminal jurisdiction of such county or city 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 or corporation court has been entered dele-
gating to the judge of * such court not of record such general discretion-
ary power of suspension and setting forth therein provision for review
by the circuit or corporation court of any abuse of such discretion. The
salaries of special justices shall be fixed and paid by the governing body
of the county or city in which event all fees collected by such justices or
to which they shall be entitled shall be paid monthly into the county or city
treasury and used as far as possible to pay such salaries. After the appoint-
ment of such special justices for a county or city no justice of the peace
shall thereafter be elected or appointed for such county or city.