CHAPTER 120

An Act to amend and reenact § 2, as amended, of Chapter IX of Chapter
431 of the Acts of Assembly of 1950, approved April 6, 1950, which
provided a charter for the city of Hopewell, the amended section
relating to the substitute civil and police justice. rH 420]

Approved March 6, 1968

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 2, as amended, of Chapter IX of Chapter 431 of the Acts of
Assembly of 1950, approved April 6, 1950, be amended and reenacted as

follows:
Chapter IX

§ 2. There shall be appointed for a term of two years a substitute
civil and police justice appointed as hereinbefore provided, who shall act
for said civil and police justice when he is unable to perform the duties of
his office, who shall have such qualifications as the council may by ordi-
nance or resolution provide. When acting for the civil and police justice,
he shall receive such salary as is provided for the civil and police justice,
and such compensation, in excess of sixty days, shall be deducted from
the compensation of the civil and police justice, and shall have such juris-
diction and authority as is provided for civil and police justices by the
general laws of the State of Virginia, with a minimum of one month’s
salary. He shall have authority to issue warrants, search warrants and
summonses in criminal and civil cases and to bail persons charged with
felonies and misdemeanors or violations of city ordinances whether acting
as substitute civil and police justice at the time or not. For issuing war-
rants and for bailing persons charged with violations of the criminal
laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, the substitute civil and police
justice shall be entitled to and receive the same fees as compensation for
such duties as is allowed justices of the peace under the general laws of
the Commonwealth of Virginia.

2. Anemergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.