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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>80487</law_id><section_number>17.1-506</section_number><catch_line>Judicial circuits</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>15.2-1637</reference><reference>15.2-3822</reference><reference>17.1-508</reference><reference>55.1-2401</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="17.1">Courts of Record</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="5">Circuit Courts</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1">Establishment; Jurisdiction; Etc</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> The City of Chesapeake shall constitute the first <span class="dictionary">circuit</span>. <a id="paragraph-288308" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/17.1-506/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> The City of Virginia Beach and the Counties of Accomack and Northampton shall constitute the second <span class="dictionary">circuit</span>. <a id="paragraph-288309" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/17.1-506/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="3"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> The City of Portsmouth shall constitute the third <span class="dictionary">circuit</span>. <a id="paragraph-288310" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/17.1-506/#3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="4"><p><span class="prefix-number">4.</span> The City of Norfolk shall constitute the fourth <span class="dictionary">circuit</span>. <a id="paragraph-288311" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/17.1-506/#4"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="5"><p><span class="prefix-number">5.</span> The Cities of Franklin and Suffolk and the Counties of Isle of Wight and Southampton shall constitute the fifth <span class="dictionary">circuit</span>. <a id="paragraph-288312" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/17.1-506/#5"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="6"><p><span class="prefix-number">6.</span> The Cities of Emporia and Hopewell and the Counties of Brunswick, Greensville, Prince George, Surry and Sussex shall constitute the sixth <span class="dictionary">circuit</span>. <a id="paragraph-288313" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/17.1-506/#6"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="7"><p><span class="prefix-number">7.</span> The City of Newport News shall constitute the seventh <span class="dictionary">circuit</span>. <a id="paragraph-288314" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/17.1-506/#7"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="8"><p><span class="prefix-number">8.</span> The City of Hampton shall constitute the eighth <span class="dictionary">circuit</span>. <a id="paragraph-288315" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/17.1-506/#8"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="9"><p><span class="prefix-number">9.</span> The Cities of Poquoson and Williamsburg and the Counties of Charles City, Gloucester, James City, King and Queen, King William, Mathews, Middlesex, New Kent and York shall constitute the ninth <span class="dictionary">circuit</span>. <a id="paragraph-288316" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/17.1-506/#9"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="10"><p><span class="prefix-number">10.</span> The Counties of Appomattox, Buckingham, Charlotte, Cumberland, Halifax, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg and Prince Edward shall constitute the tenth <span class="dictionary">circuit</span>. <a id="paragraph-288317" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/17.1-506/#10"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="11"><p><span class="prefix-number">11.</span> The City of Petersburg and the Counties of Amelia, Dinwiddie, Nottoway and Powhatan shall constitute the eleventh <span class="dictionary">circuit</span>. <a id="paragraph-288318" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/17.1-506/#11"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="12"><p><span class="prefix-number">12.</span> The City of Colonial Heights and the County of Chesterfield shall constitute the twelfth <span class="dictionary">circuit</span>. <a id="paragraph-288319" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/17.1-506/#12"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="13"><p><span class="prefix-number">13.</span> The City of Richmond shall constitute the thirteenth <span class="dictionary">circuit</span>. <a id="paragraph-288320" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/17.1-506/#13"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="14"><p><span class="prefix-number">14.</span> The County of Henrico shall constitute the fourteenth <span class="dictionary">circuit</span>. <a id="paragraph-288321" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/17.1-506/#14"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="15"><p><span class="prefix-number">15.</span> The City of Fredericksburg and the Counties of Caroline, Essex, Hanover, King George, Lancaster, Northumberland, Richmond, Spotsylvania, Stafford and Westmoreland shall constitute the fifteenth <span class="dictionary">circuit</span>. <a id="paragraph-288322" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/17.1-506/#15"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="16"><p><span class="prefix-number">16.</span> The City of Charlottesville and the Counties of Albemarle, Culpeper, Fluvanna, Goochland, Greene, Louisa, Madison and Orange shall constitute the sixteenth <span class="dictionary">circuit</span>. <a id="paragraph-288323" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/17.1-506/#16"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="17"><p><span class="prefix-number">17.</span> The County of Arlington and the City of Falls Church shall constitute the seventeenth <span class="dictionary">circuit</span>. <a id="paragraph-288324" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/17.1-506/#17"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="18"><p><span class="prefix-number">18.</span> The City of Alexandria shall constitute the eighteenth <span class="dictionary">circuit</span>. <a id="paragraph-288325" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/17.1-506/#18"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="19"><p><span class="prefix-number">19.</span> The City of Fairfax and the County of Fairfax shall constitute the nineteenth <span class="dictionary">circuit</span>. <a id="paragraph-288326" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/17.1-506/#19"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="20"><p><span class="prefix-number">20.</span> The Counties of Fauquier, Loudoun and Rappahannock shall constitute the twentieth <span class="dictionary">circuit</span>. <a id="paragraph-288327" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/17.1-506/#20"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="21"><p><span class="prefix-number">21.</span> The City of Martinsville and the Counties of Henry and Patrick shall constitute the twenty-first <span class="dictionary">circuit</span>. <a id="paragraph-288328" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/17.1-506/#21"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="22"><p><span class="prefix-number">22.</span> The City of Danville and the Counties of Franklin and Pittsylvania shall constitute the twenty-second <span class="dictionary">circuit</span>. <a id="paragraph-288329" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/17.1-506/#22"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="23"><p><span class="prefix-number">23.</span> The Cities of Roanoke and Salem and the County of Roanoke shall constitute the twenty-third <span class="dictionary">circuit</span>. <a id="paragraph-288330" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/17.1-506/#23"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="24"><p><span class="prefix-number">24.</span> The City of Lynchburg and the Counties of Amherst, Bedford, Campbell and Nelson shall constitute the twenty-fourth <span class="dictionary">circuit</span>. <a id="paragraph-288331" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/17.1-506/#24"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="25"><p><span class="prefix-number">25.</span> The Cities of Buena Vista, Covington, Lexington, Staunton and Waynesboro and the Counties of Alleghany, Augusta, Bath, Botetourt, Craig, Highland and Rockbridge shall constitute the twenty-fifth <span class="dictionary">circuit</span>. <a id="paragraph-288332" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/17.1-506/#25"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="26"><p><span class="prefix-number">26.</span> The Cities of Harrisonburg and Winchester and the Counties of Clarke, Frederick, Page, Rockingham, Shenandoah and Warren shall constitute the twenty-sixth <span class="dictionary">circuit</span>. <a id="paragraph-288333" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/17.1-506/#26"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="27"><p><span class="prefix-number">27.</span> The Cities of Galax and Radford and the Counties of Bland, Carroll, Floyd, Giles, Grayson, Montgomery, Pulaski and Wythe shall constitute the twenty-seventh <span class="dictionary">circuit</span>. <a id="paragraph-288334" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/17.1-506/#27"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="28"><p><span class="prefix-number">28.</span> The City of Bristol and the Counties of Smyth and Washington shall constitute the twenty-eighth <span class="dictionary">circuit</span>. <a id="paragraph-288335" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/17.1-506/#28"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="29"><p><span class="prefix-number">29.</span> The Counties of Buchanan, Dickenson, Russell and Tazewell shall constitute the twenty-ninth <span class="dictionary">circuit</span>. <a id="paragraph-288336" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/17.1-506/#29"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="30"><p><span class="prefix-number">30.</span> The City of Norton and the Counties of Lee, Scott and Wise shall constitute the thirtieth <span class="dictionary">circuit</span>. <a id="paragraph-288337" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/17.1-506/#30"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="31"><p><span class="prefix-number">31.</span> The Cities of Manassas and Manassas Park and the County of Prince William shall constitute the thirty-first <span class="dictionary">circuit</span>. <a id="paragraph-288338" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/17.1-506/#31"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1973, c. 544, &#xA7; 17-119.1:1; 1974, c. 297; 1976, c. 126; 1977, c. 4; 1983, c. 149; 1986, c. 405; 1987, c. 624; 1991, c. 189; 1998, c. 872; 2006, c. 861; 2016, cc. 164, 312.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
