CODE OF VIRGINIA

MEANING OF CERTAIN TERMS (§ 16.1-69.5)

Unless the context should otherwise require, the terms set out in this section
shall be construed as follows:

a. “Courts not of record” shall mean all courts in the Commonwealth
below the jurisdictional level of the circuit courts including general district
courts and juvenile and domestic relations district courts;

b. “General district courts” shall mean all courts not of record,
except juvenile and domestic relations district courts in counties and cities
heretofore designated as county and municipal courts;

c. “Juvenile and domestic relations district courts” shall mean all
courts in counties and cities heretofore designated as juvenile and domestic
relations courts or regional juvenile and domestic relations courts;

d. “District courts” shall mean general district courts and juvenile
and domestic relations district courts;

e. “County courts” and “municipal courts” shall be
deemed to refer to general district courts;

f. “Juvenile and domestic relations courts” and “regional
juvenile and domestic relations courts” shall be deemed to refer to
juvenile and domestic relations district courts; and

g. “Chief judge” shall mean that judge so designated for a term to
assume primary administrative responsibility for the general district courts or
the juvenile and domestic relations district courts in the district served by
such judge.

HISTORY: 1972, c. 708; 1973, c. 546; 1975, c. 334.