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2000 SESSION


CHAPTER 43
An Act to amend and reenact § 16.1-69.6:1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to number of district court judges.
[H 755]
Approved March 7, 2000

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 16.1-69.6:1 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 16.1-69.6:1. Number of judges.

For the several judicial districts there shall be full-time general district court judges and juvenile and domestic relations district court judges, the number as hereinafter set forth, who shall during their service reside within their respective districts, except as provided in § 16.1-69.16, and whose compensation and powers shall be the same as now and hereafter prescribed for general district court judges and juvenile and domestic relations district court judges.

The number of judges of the districts shall be as follows:

                                       Juvenile and Domestic
          General District Court         Relations District
                    Judges                 Court Judges
First                  4                      3
Second                 7                      7
Two-A                  1                      1
Third                  3                      3
Fourth                 6                      5
Fifth                  3                      2
Sixth                  3                      2
Seventh                4                      3
Eighth                 3                      2
Ninth                  3                      3
Tenth                  3                      3
Eleventh               2                      2
Twelfth                4                      4
Thirteenth             8                      5
Fourteenth             4                      3 4

The juvenile and domestic relations district court judges of the fourteenth judicial district shall render assistance on a regular basis to the juvenile and domestic relations district court judges of the twelfth judicial district by appropriate designation.

Fifteenth              5                      6
Sixteenth              4                      4
Seventeenth            3                      2
Eighteenth             2                      2
Nineteenth            10                      7
Twentieth              3                      2
Twenty-first           2                      2
Twenty-second          2                      3
Twenty-third           5                      4
Twenty-fourth          4                      5
Twenty-fifth           5                      4

The general district court judges of the twenty-fifth district shall render assistance on a regular basis to the general district court judges of the twenty-sixth district by appropriate designation.

Twenty-sixth           4                      4
Twenty-seventh         4                      3
Twenty-eighth          2                      2
Twenty-ninth           3                      2
Thirtieth              2                      2
Thirty-first           4                      5

The election or appointment of any district judge shall be subject to the provisions of § 16.1-69.9:3.