CHAPTER 137

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 17-195.1 through 17-195.6 of the Code
of Virginia, relating to additional judges of the Court of Law and
Chancery of the City of Norfolk.

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 17-195.1 through 17-195.6 of the Code of Virginia be amended
and reenacted as follows:

§ 17-195.1. Additional judges authorized; powers, duties and juris-
diction generally—From and after July one, nineteen hundred * sizty-
eight, there shall be * two additional judges for the Court of Law and
Chancery of the City of Norfolk with like qualifications and to be elected
in the same manner as the other judge of said court. The powers, duties,
jurisdiction and authority of said additional judges, except as hereinafter
provided, shall be the same as now or hereinafter provided by law for the
other judge of said court and may be exercised at the same time as the
other judge of said court is exercising the powers conferred upon him.

§ 17-195.2. Election of additional judges; term; vacancies.—* The
office of additional judge, and vacancies occurring therein, shall be filled
in the manner and for the term provided by general law for the filling
of vacancies in the office of judges of circuit courts or for choosing the
judge when a new or additional circuit has been created.

§ 17-195.3. Appointments incident to trials, etc.; appointments to
public office.—The appointment of guardians ad litem and receivers, and
any other appointments incident to the trial, hearing or disposition of
any suit in chancery, action at law or other judicial proceeding may be
made by any judge of said court except where a judge has begun presid-
ing in any such proceeding, in which event such judge shall make the
appointment.

Appointments to fill any public office or any vacancy of any public
office shall be made by the concurring vote of * all judges of said court
and, in the event they are unable to agree, the senior judge shall make

e same.

§ 17-195.4. Senior judge—The judge of said Court of Law and
Chancery longest in continuous service shall be the senior judge of said
court, and if two or more of the judges of said court shall have so served
for the same period, the senior in years of these shall be the senior judge.
The senior judge shall have authority to assign the work of said court as
between the judges thereof, the entry of an order being unnecessary for
such assignment and, except as herein provided, the other judges, during
* their tenure, shall have the same powers and duties of the senior judge.

§ 17-195.5. Salary of additional judges.——The salary of said addi-
tional judges of said court shall be as prescribed by law.

§ 17-195.6. Additional judges considered as additional court in com-
puting compensation of clerk.—In computing the compensation of the clerk
of said court the additional judges shall be considered and taken as addi-
tional courts served by said clerk.

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