                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

EXISTING COURTS CONTINUED AND REDESIGNATED; EXCEPTION (§ 16.1-69.8)

The present system of courts not of record is continued as follows on and after
July 1, 1973:

a. The county court in each county shall continue as the general district court
of such county with the same powers and with territorial jurisdiction over such
county and over any city within the county for which a municipal court with
general civil or criminal jurisdiction or separate general district court has
not been established.

b. The municipal court or courts in each city, excluding juvenile and domestic
relations courts, shall continue as the general district court of the city with
the same powers and territorial jurisdiction over such city; provided that in
the case of more than one such municipal court in operation in any city, all
such courts shall be merged on July 1, 1973, and their powers and territorial
jurisdiction merged in the general district court.

c. The juvenile and domestic relations court of each county and city shall
continue as the juvenile and domestic relations district court of the county or
city with the same powers and territorial jurisdiction as heretofore provided.

d. The municipal court of any town and/or other court of any town having general
civil and criminal jurisdiction however called shall be abolished and all
jurisdiction and power conferred upon any such court shall pass to and be
exercised by the district courts having jurisdiction over the county wherein the
town is located.

HISTORY: 1972, c. 708; 1973, c. 546; 2018, c. 164.