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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>56333</law_id><section_number>17.1-523</section_number><catch_line>Salaries of judges of circuit courts</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><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><p>The <span class="dictionary">judges</span> of the <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">courts</span> shall each receive such salary as shall be fixed from time to time in the general appropriation acts. Such salary shall be the total compensation for <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">court</span> <span class="dictionary">judges</span>. However, any county or city which has, prior to March 1, 1976, maintained any program of supplemental retirement or insurance for the benefit of such <span class="dictionary">judges</span>, may continue the same in effect as to <span class="dictionary">judges</span> theretofore covered thereby. The whole of such salaries shall be paid out of the state treasury.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 14-43; 1964, c. 386, &#xA7; 14.1-33; 1972, c. 43; 1973, c. 544; 1974, c. 225; 1976, c. 667; 1978, c. 249; 1979, c. 83; 1998, c. 872.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
