                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

COMPENSATION AND EXPENSES OF CLERKS OF CIRCUIT COURTS IN CITIES OF RICHMOND AND
NEWPORT NEWS (§ 17.1-288)

In the City of Richmond and in the City of Newport News, the clerk of the
circuit court shall be paid a salary by the city of not less than the amount
which would be allowed to be retained by the respective clerks under state law.
Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to prevent such clerks from
receiving any future increases that may be allowed clerks of circuit courts from
time to time by the General Assembly.
		Such salaries shall be in full compensation for services and shall be in lieu
of the retention by such clerks of any and all official fees, commissions and
emoluments of whatever kind or character, and from whatever source derived; and
the city council of each such city shall provide for the payment of such
salaries out of the city treasury in equal biweekly, semimonthly or monthly
installments. The expenses of office of such clerks, including the compensation
of all deputies and employees, shall likewise be paid to each such clerk out of
the city treasury on duly authenticated vouchers when and as such expenses are
incurred or may become due and payable or at least monthly. The maximum amount
of such expenses shall be fixed by the Compensation Board, and the Board shall
fix the number and compensation of the deputies and employees of each such
clerk.
		All fees, commissions, and emoluments of every kind or character received or
collected by such clerks, and from whatever source derived, shall be paid into
the city treasury by such clerks monthly. All fees, commissions, and emoluments
of every kind and character whether payable by the Commonwealth, the United
States, or by private persons, firms or corporations, now or hereafter made
receivable by laws or ordinance by such clerks, shall continue to be paid to and
collected by such clerks and shall be paid into the city treasury monthly,
except that the city aforesaid shall not be required to pay any such clerk any
fees or commissions for services performed for such city.
		Except as to the Clerk of the Circuit Court of the City of Newport News,
nothing in this section shall be construed to affect or remove any of such
clerks, their deputies, or employees from coverage by the Virginia Retirement
System, but they shall remain in such system, and the city shall pay to the
Virginia Retirement System such amount as the Commonwealth would have been
required to pay had such clerks, deputies and employees continued to be
compensated under other provisions of former Article 3 (§ 14.1-136 et seq.) of
Chapter 2 of Title 14.1, and the city shall deduct from the salaries paid such
clerks, their deputies and employees the employee contribution to the Virginia
Retirement System as provided by law.

HISTORY: 1970, c. 382, § 14.1-144.1; 1973, c. 544; 1981, c. 14; 1983, c. 580;
1998, c. 872.