                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

VACANCIES ON COURT OCCURRING DURING TRIAL (§ 15.2-3004)

If a vacancy occurs on such court at any time prior to the final disposition of
the case and the completion of all duties required to be performed by it, the
court shall not be dissolved and the proceeding shall not fail; the vacancy
shall be filled by designation of another judge from the panel provided for in
this chapter. Such substitute judge shall have all the power and authority of
his predecessor, and the court shall proceed as so constituted to hear and
determine the case and do all things necessary to accomplish its final
disposition and the completion of all the duties of the court, including such
matters as the certification of evidence and exceptions. No decision shall be
rendered or action taken after such designation with respect to any question
previously submitted to but not decided by the court except after a full hearing
in open court by the court as reconstituted of all the evidence theretofore
introduced before the court and a hearing of all arguments theretofore made with
reference to such question.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 15-152.9; 1952, c. 328; 1960, c. 474; 1962, c. 623, §
15.1-1039; 1979, c. 85; 1997, c. 587.