CHAPTER 518

An Act to amend and reenact § 51-8, as amended, of the Code of Virginia,
relating to requisites for retirement of certain judges. (H 552]

Approved March 31, 1964

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 51-8, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 51-3. (a) * Any judge of a circuit court, or of any corporation or
city court of any city of the first class, who has attained the age of sixty-
five years and has served for not less than * ten years as Judge of any one
or more of such courts, and any such judge who has attained the age of
sixty-eight years prior to July first, nineteen hundred and sixty-two, and

served for not less than ten years as judge of any one or more of such
courts, and any judge of any such circuit, corporation or city court who
has attained the age of sixty-two years and has served for not less than
twenty-five consecutive years as judge of any one or more of such courts,
may retire from active service upon the bench.

(a-1) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (a) of this section
or of any other provision of law to the contrary, any judge of a circutt
court, or of any corporation or city court of any city of the first class
who, on the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred sixty-one, was
participating in, and was in good standing under, the provisions of this
chapter and who, after such date, attained, or hereafter attains, the age
of sixty years and has, or shall have, served for not less than twenty-five
consecutive years as judge of any one or more of such courts, may retire
from active service upon the bench.

(b) Any judge of any circuit court, or of any corporation or city
court of any city of the first class, elected or appointed for the first time
after June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifty-four, and prior to March
first, nineteen hundred and sixty-two, shall retire from active service
upon attaining the age of seventy-five years, regardless of his years of
such service, and those elected or appointed for the first time after March
first, nineteen hundred and sixty-two, shall retire from active service
upon attaining the age of seventy years regardless of his years of service.
In either event such judge shall not be entitled to retired pay unless he
has served at least * ten years.

(c) Each judge retiring under any of the provisions of this section
shall give the Governor notice in writing, at least ninety days in advance
of such retirement, stating in such notice the basis of such retirement, and
the date upon which such retirement will become effective. Upon receipt
of such notice, the Governor shall notify the Comptroller as to such retire-
ment and the effective date of the same.