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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 708 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1972 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 1973, chapter 546.<\/p>","references":[{"id":78281,"section_number":"16.1-69.33","catch_line":"Committee on District Courts","order_by":null,"url":"\/16.1-69.33\/"},{"id":79551,"section_number":"16.1-69.38","catch_line":"Authorization for substitute judges and personnel","order_by":null,"url":"\/16.1-69.38\/"},{"id":77166,"section_number":"16.1-69.46","catch_line":"How salaries payable","order_by":null,"url":"\/16.1-69.46\/"}],"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":162211,"object_type":"law","relational_id":62755,"identifier":"16.1-69.37","token":"16.1\/4.1\/4\/16.1-69.37","url":"\/16.1-69.37\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/16.1-69.37\/","token":"16.1\/4.1\/4\/16.1-69.37","dublin_core":{"Title":"Personnel continued in office","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 16.1-69.37","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>The clerks, deputy clerks, referees, <span class=\"dictionary\">bailiffs<\/span> and other officers and employees of county, municipal and juvenile and domestic relations <span class=\"dictionary\">courts<\/span> shall continue in office in like positions with the general district <span class=\"dictionary\">courts<\/span> and juvenile and domestic relations district <span class=\"dictionary\">courts<\/span> until the expiration of the term, if any, for which elected or appointed. 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Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed\nto effect or authorize any reduction in the compensation of any such officer or\nemployee during such term.\n\nHISTORY: 1972, c. 708; 1973, c. 546.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}