                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

SAME; ELECTION OF SUCCESSOR JUDGES (§ 16.1-69.9:4)

Whenever a vacancy occurs or exists in the office of a full-time district judge
while the General Assembly is in session, or whenever the term of a full-time
judge of a district court will expire or the office will be vacated at a date
certain between the adjournment of the General Assembly and the commencement of
the next session of the General Assembly, a successor judge may be elected at
any time during a session preceding the date of such vacancy, by the vote of a
majority of the members elected to each house of the General Assembly, for a
full term of six years and, upon qualification, the successor judge shall enter
at once upon the discharge of the duties of his office. However, such successor
judge shall not enter upon the discharge of his duties prior to the commencement
of his term of office. No person shall be elected or reelected to a subsequent
term under this section until he has submitted to a criminal history record
search and submitted to a search of the central registry maintained pursuant to
§ 63.2-1515 for any founded complaint of child abuse or neglect and reports of
such searches have been received by the Chairmen of the House and Senate
Committees for Courts of Justice. If the person has not met the requirement of
filing in the preceding calendar year a disclosure form prescribed in §
2.2-3117 or 30-111, he shall also provide a written statement of economic
interests on the disclosure form prescribed in § 2.2-3117 to the Chairmen of
the House and Senate Committees for Courts of Justice.

HISTORY: 1973, c. 546; 1993, c. 368; 2004, c. 452; 2018, c. 578.