CHAPTER 627

An Act to amend and reenact § 17-119, as amended, of the Code of Virginia,
so as to provide that the city of Virginia Beach shall constitute the
twenty-eighth judicial circuit and to place the county of Isle of Wight
in the second judicial circuit.
{(H 871]
Approved April 5, 1966

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 17-119, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 17-119. Judicial circuits.—The State shall be divided into judicial
circuits as follows:

(1) . The county of Norfolk shall constitute the first circuit.

(2) The counties of Isle of Wight, Nansemond and Southampton
and the city of Suffolk shall constitute the second circuit.

( The counties of Prince George, Sussex, Surry, Greensville and
Brunswick and the city of Hopewell shall constitute the third circuit.

(4) The counties of Dinwiddie, Nottoway, Amelia and Powhatan
and the city of Petersburg shall constitute the fourth circuit.

(5) The counties of Appomattox, Charlotte, Prince Edward, Buck-
ingham and Cumberland shall constitute the fifth circuit.

(6) The counties of Bedford and Campbell and the city of Lynchburg
shall constitute the sixth circuit.

(7) The counties of Henry and Patrick and the city of Martinsville
shall constitute the seventh circuit.

(8) The counties of Madison, Greene, Fluvanna and Albemarle and
the city of Charlottesville shall constitute the eighth circuit.

(9) The counties of Culpeper, Orange, Louisa and Goochland shall
constitute the ninth circuit.

(10) The county of Henrico and the city of Richmond shall constitute
the tenth circuit.

(11) The cities of Hampton and Newport News shall constitute
the eleventh circuit, provided that after July one, nineteen hundred and
sixty-two, the city of Hampton shall constitute the eleventh circuit.

(12) The counties of Richmond, Northumberland, Westmoreland,
Lancaster and Essex shall constitute the twelfth circuit.

__(18) The counties of Gloucester, Mathews, King and Queen, King
William and Middlesex shall constitute the thirteenth circuit.

(14) The counties of New Kent, Charles City, York and James City
and the cities of Warwick and Williamsburg shall constitute the four-
teenth circuit, provided that after July one, nineteen hundred and fifty-
eight, the counties of New Kent, Charles City, York and James City and
the cities of Newport News and Williamsburg shall constitute the four-
teenth circuit until July one, nineteen hundred and sixty, when the city
of Newport News will cease to be a part of the fourteenth circuit.

(15) The counties of King George, Stafford, Spotsylvania, Caroline
and “Snr and the city of Fredericksburg shall constitute the fifteenth
circui

(16) The counties of Prince William and Fairfax and the city of
Alexandria shall constitute the sixteenth circuit.

(17) The counties of Frederick, Clarke, Warren and Shenandoah
Shall constitute the seventeenth circuit.

18) The counties of Augusta, Highland and Rockbridge and the
(19) The counties of Bath, Alleghany, Craig and Botetourt and the
sity of Clifton Forge shall constitute the nineteenth circuit.

(20) The county of Roanoke and the city of Roanoke shall constitute
the twentieth circuit.

(21) The counties of Pulaski, Carroll, Wythe and Grayson shall con-
stitute the twenty-first circuit.

(22) The counties of Bland, Tazewell and Giles shall constitute the
twenty-second circuit. ;

(23) The counties of Washington and Smyth and the city of Bristol
shall constitute the twenty-third circuit.
| - The counties of Lee and Scott shall constitute the twenty-fourth
circuit.

(25) The counties of Rockingham and Page shall constitute the
twenty-fifth circuit.

(26) The counties of Rappahannock, Fauquier and Loudoun shall
constitute the twenty-sixth circuit.

(27) The counties of Buchanan, Dickenson and Russell shall con-
stitute the twenty-seventh circuit. ;

_ 28) The * city of Virginia Beach shall constitute the twenty-eighth

circuit.

(29) The counties of Amherst and Nelson and the city of Waynes-
boro shall constitute the twenty-ninth circuit. ;

(30) The counties of Franklin and Pittsylvania shall constitute the
thirtieth circuit. .

(31) The counties of Accomack and Northhampton shall constitute
the thirty-first circuit. oo

(32) The city of Norfolk shall constitute the thirty-second circuit.

(33) The county of Wise shall constitute the thirty-third circuit.

(84) The counties of Halifax, Mecklenburg and Lunenburg shall con-
stitute the thirty-fourth circuit. .

(35) The county of Arlington shall constitute the thirty-fifth circuit.

(36) The counties of Floyd and Montgomery and the city of Rad-
ford shall constitute the thirty-sixth circuit. |

(37) The county of Chesterfield and the city of Colonial Heights
shall constitute the thirty-seventh circuit.

(38) On and after July one, nineteen hundred sixty, the city of
Portsmouth shall constitute the thirty-eighth circuit. The judge of the
twenty-eighth judicial circuit residing in the city of Portsmouth on
July one, nineteen hundred sixty, shall be the judge of the thirty-eighth
judicial circuit for the balance of the term for which elected as judge of
the twenty-eighth judicial circuit and shall forthwith relinquish his office
as judge of the twenty-eighth judicial circuit.

(39) On and after July one, nineteen hundred sixty-two, the city
of Newport News shall constitute the fortieth circuit.

Should the federal census of nineteen hundred and sixty or other
census provided for by law disclose that the counties of Hanover and
Caroline have a combined population in excess of forty thousand in-
habitants then the senior judge of the fifteenth circuit shall enter an
order in the circuit courts of both of such counties setting out such fact.
A certified copy of such order shall be transmitted by the clerk of each
such court to the Secretary of the Commonwealth, who shall file and
preserve the same in the records of his office and shall report to the
Governor at once the fact that such counties have a combined populatior
In excess of forty thousand, as disclosed by such census. The Governor
upon receiving such report, shall at once make proclamation of such fact,
copies of which proclamation shall be certified to the clerks of each of the
courts then constituting the fifteenth judicial circuit who shall endorse
thereon the date when received and record the same in the common-law
order books of such courts.

After such proclamation has been recorded in the manner hereinabove
provided, the counties of Hanover and Caroline shall constitute the fifteenth
judicial circuit, and the counties of King George, Stafford and Spot-
sylvania and the city of Fredericksburg shall become and constitute a new
judicial circuit, designated and known as the thirty-ninth circuit.

In such event, the Governor shall designate which of the judges of
the fifteenth judicial circuit shall continue to be the judge of that circuit,
and which of such judges shall be the judge of the new thirty-ninth
Judicial circuit composed of the counties of King George, Stafford and
Spotsylvania and the city of Fredericksburg.