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2006 SESSION

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SENATE BILL NO. 391
Offered January 11, 2006
Prefiled January 11, 2006
A BILL to amend and reenact § 16.1-69.6:1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to number of district court judges.
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Patron-- Stolle
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Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
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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                                 4                         2
 Seventh                               4                         34
 Eighth                                3                         3
 Ninth                                 3                         3
 Tenth                                 3                         3
 Eleventh                              2                         2
 Twelfth                               4                         5
 Thirteenth                            8                         5
 Fourteenth                            4                         45
 Fifteenth                             6                         7
 Sixteenth                             4                         4
 Seventeenth                           4                         2
 Eighteenth                            2                         2
 Nineteenth                           1011                       78
 Twentieth                             34                        3
 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                         45
 Twenty-seventh                        45                        4
 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.