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2000 SESSION
005227210Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 16.1-69.9:2 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 16.1-69.9:2. Vacancies in office of judges; terms of successor judges; appointment during recess of General Assembly.
Whenever a vacancy occurs in the office of a full-time district court judge the
successor shall be elected for a full term of six years and upon qualification
shall enter at once upon the discharge of the duties of his office. But subject
to the provisions of § 16.1-69.9:3, the judges of the circuit having
jurisdiction over the district Governor [ , after consultation with each
member of the legislature representing any portion of the judicial district, ]
shall have the power during the recess of the General Assembly to fill pro tempore
vacancies in the office of full-time district court judges if such vacancy
occurs more than thirty days prior to the commencement of the next session of the
General Assembly. Such appointment to every such vacancy shall be by commission
to expire at the end of thirty days after the commencement of the next session of the
General Assembly.