CHAPTER 108

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 17-5 and 17-184 of the Code of Virginia,
relating to residence requirements of judges of certain courts of

record.
[H 213]
Approved February 26, 1964

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 17-5 and 17-134 of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 17-5. Each judge of a circuit, corporation or city court shall, dur-
ing his continuance in office, reside ‘within the jurisdiction of the ‘court
over which he presides and his removal therefrom shall vacate his office,
except that a judge of a corporation court of any corporation having a
city charter and less than five thousand inhabitants may reside outside
the corporate limits of such city; whenever any such judge resides within
the area in which his court has criminal jurisdiction he shall be deemed
to be residing within his circuit and in one of the counttes or cities con-
stituting the same.

§ 17-134. Each circuit judge, during his continuance in office, shall
reside in the circuit of which he is judge; whenever any such judge resides
within the area in which his court has criminal jurisdiction he shall be
deemed to be residing within his circuit and in one of the counties or cities
constituting the same.