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2007 SESSION
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §§ 15.2-1629 and 15.2-1631 of the Code of Virginia are amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 15.2-1629. Part-time attorneys for the Commonwealth in certain counties may seek full-time status.
A. Notwithstanding §§ 15.2-1627.1 and 15.2-1628, any attorney for the Commonwealth for a county may, with the consent of the Compensation Board, elect to devote full time to the duties of attorney for the Commonwealth at a salary equal to that for an attorney for the Commonwealth in a county with a population of more than 35,000. Such an election and consent by the Compensation Board shall be binding on the attorney for the Commonwealth and on successors in the office.
B. The Compensation Board shall prepare a list of localities
eligible to have a full-time attorney for the Commonwealth and shall prioritize
the list according to the following factors: three-year average arrest
figures; three-year average weighted arrest figures; caseload figures for the
circuit court and all lower courts of the jurisdiction as compiled by the
Supreme Court; the presence in the locality of penal institutions, mental
health institutions, and colleges and universities; the transient population
figures; the proximity of the jurisdiction to a large urban area; and any other
factors deemed pertinent by the Compensation Board same workload
measures used by the Compensation Board in staffing standards established for
assistant attorney for the Commonwealth positions in Commonwealth's Attorneys'
offices statewide.
C. As used in this section, "arrests" means the
total number of criminal arrests reported by the Department of State Police
from data compiled for the Uniform Crime Report, and "weighted
arrests" means the average for the immediately preceding three years of
the sum derived from a formula which assigns values to the actual number of
arrests as follows: murder, thirty; manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery and
aggravated assault, fifteen; felonious possession, sale or manufacture of
Schedule I or II controlled substances, burglary, forgery and motor vehicle
theft, five; embezzlement, four and six-tenths; purchase or receipt of stolen
property, three and one-half; larceny, two and six-tenths; fraud, two; and all
other felonies and all misdemeanors other than traffic offenses, one and
two-tenths.
D C. Upon electing to become a full-time
attorney for the Commonwealth and upon receiving additional funding of such
office by the Compensation Board, the attorney for the Commonwealth shall not
thereafter engage in the private practice of law. No such election shall become
effective until the July 1 immediately following the date of election, or until
another date as agreed upon by the attorney for the Commonwealth and the
Compensation Board.
E D. The Compensation Board shall fund such
additional full-time offices of the attorney for the Commonwealth according to
the priority list established in subsection B of this section, subject to
appropriations by the General Assembly.
§ 15.2-1631. Part-time attorneys for the Commonwealth in certain cities may seek full-time status.
A. Notwithstanding §§ 15.2-1627.1 and 15.2-1630, any attorney for the Commonwealth for a city may, with the consent of the Compensation Board, elect to devote full time to the duties of attorney for the Commonwealth at a salary equal to that for an attorney for the Commonwealth in a city with a population of more than 35,000. Such an election and consent by the Compensation Board shall be binding on the attorney for the Commonwealth and on successors in the office.
B. The Compensation Board shall prepare a list of localities
eligible to have a full-time attorney for the Commonwealth and shall prioritize
the list according to the following factors: three-year average arrest
figures; three-year average weighted arrest figures; caseload figures for the
circuit court and all lower courts of the jurisdiction as compiled by the
Supreme Court; the presence in the locality of penal institutions, mental
health institutions, and colleges and universities; the transient population
figures; the proximity of the jurisdiction to a large urban area; and any other
factors deemed pertinent by the Compensation Board same workload
measures used by the Compensation Board in staffing standards established for
assistant attorney for the Commonwealth positions in Commonwealth's Attorneys'
offices statewide.
C. As used in this section, "arrests" means the
total number of criminal arrests reported by the Department of State Police
from data compiled for the Uniform Crime Report, and "weighted
arrests" means the average for the immediately preceding three years of
the sum derived from a formula which assigns values to the actual number of
arrests as follows: murder, thirty; manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery and
aggravated assault, fifteen; felonious possession, sale or manufacture of
Schedule I or II controlled substances, burglary, forgery and motor vehicle
theft, five; embezzlement, four and six-tenths; purchase or receipt of stolen
property, three and one-half; larceny, two and six-tenths; fraud, two; and all
other felonies and all misdemeanors other than traffic offenses, one and
two-tenths.
D C. Upon electing to become a full-time
attorney for the Commonwealth and upon receiving additional funding of such
office by the Compensation Board, the attorney for the Commonwealth shall not
thereafter engage in the private practice of law. No such election shall become
effective until the July 1 immediately following the date of election, or until
another date as agreed upon by the attorney for the Commonwealth and the
Compensation Board.
E D. The Compensation Board shall fund such
additional full-time offices of the attorney for the Commonwealth according to
the priority list established in subsection B of this section, subject to
appropriations by the General Assembly.