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1999 SESSION
992038460Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 19.2-37 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 19.2-37. Who may be appointed magistrate.
Any person may be appointed to the office of magistrate under this title subject to the limitations of Chapter 4 (§ 2.1-30 et seq.) of Title 2.1 and of this section.
A person shall be eligible for appointment to the office of magistrate under
the provisions of this title: (a) if such person or his spouse is not a
law-enforcement officer; (b) if such person or his spouse is not a clerk,
deputy or assistant clerk, or employee charged with the duty of enforcing any of the laws
of this Commonwealth or any ordinance of any political subdivision thereof, of
or any such clerk of a district court or police department or
sheriff's office in any county or city with respect to appointment to the office of
magistrate of such county or city, provided that the Committee on District Courts may
authorize a magistrate to assist in the district court clerk's office on a
part-time basis; (c) if the appointment does not create a parent-child,
husband-wife, or brother-sister relationship between a district court judge and
such person serving within the same judicial district; (c1) if such person is
not the chief executive officer, or a member of the board of supervisors, town
or city council, or other governing body for any political subdivision of this
Commonwealth; and (d) if such person is a United States citizen and a resident
of the judicial district for which he is appointed to serve as magistrate; however,
Arlington, Fairfax and Prince William Counties and the City of Alexandria may employ as
magistrates persons residing in adjoining judicial districts. Any magistrate
serving in the City of Norfolk on July 1, 1996, shall be eligible for
reappointment pursuant to this article regardless of the judicial district of
his residence. No magistrate shall issue any warrant or process in complaint of
his spouse, child, grandchild, parent, grandparent, parent-in-law,
child-in-law, brother, sister, brother-in-law or sister-in-law, nephew, niece,
uncle, aunt, first cousin, guardian or ward. The residence provisions contained
in this section shall not be a bar to the reappointment of any magistrate in
office on July 1, 1973, provided he is otherwise eligible to serve under the
provisions of this chapter.