On and after July 1, 1973, the Commonwealth shall be divided into districts encompassing all counties and cities in the Commonwealth to provide a basis for the sound and efficient administration of the courts not of record, as follows:
(1) The City of Chesapeake shall constitute the first district.
(2) The City of Virginia Beach shall constitute the second district.
(2-A) The Counties of Accomack and Northampton shall constitute district two-A.
(3) The City of Portsmouth shall constitute the third district.
(4) The City of Norfolk shall constitute the fourth district.
(5) The Cities of Franklin and Suffolk and the Counties of Isle of Wight and Southampton shall constitute the fifth district.
(6) The Cities of Emporia and Hopewell and the Counties of Prince George, Surry, Sussex, Greensville and Brunswick shall constitute the sixth district.
(7) The City of Newport News shall constitute the seventh district.
(8) The City of Hampton shall constitute the eighth district.
(9) The Cities of Williamsburg and Poquoson and the Counties of York, James City, Charles City, New Kent, Gloucester, Mathews, Middlesex, King William and King and Queen shall constitute the ninth district.
(10) The Counties of Cumberland, Buckingham, Appomattox, Prince Edward, Charlotte, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg and Halifax shall constitute the tenth district.
(11) The City of Petersburg and the Counties of Dinwiddie, Nottoway, Amelia and Powhatan shall constitute the eleventh district.
(12) The City of Colonial Heights and the County of Chesterfield shall constitute the twelfth district.
(13) The City of Richmond shall constitute the thirteenth district.
(14) The County of Henrico shall constitute the fourteenth district.
(15) The City of Fredericksburg and the Counties of King George, Stafford, Spotsylvania, Caroline, Hanover, Lancaster, Northumberland, Westmoreland, Richmond and Essex shall constitute the fifteenth district.
(16) The City of Charlottesville and the Counties of Madison, Greene, Albemarle, Fluvanna, Goochland, Louisa, Orange and Culpeper shall constitute the sixteenth district.
(17) The County of Arlington and the City of Falls Church shall constitute the seventeenth district.
(18) The City of Alexandria shall constitute the eighteenth district.
(19) The City of Fairfax and the County of Fairfax shall constitute the nineteenth district.
(20) The Counties of Loudoun, Fauquier and Rappahannock shall constitute the twentieth district.
(21) The City of Martinsville and the Counties of Patrick and Henry shall constitute the twenty-first district.
(22) The City of Danville and the Counties of Pittsylvania and Franklin shall constitute the twenty-second district.
(23) The Cities of Roanoke and Salem and the County of Roanoke shall constitute the twenty-third district.
(24) The City of Lynchburg and the Counties of Nelson, Amherst, Campbell and Bedford shall constitute the twenty-fourth district.
(25) The Cities of Covington, Lexington, Staunton, Buena Vista, and Waynesboro and the Counties of Highland, Augusta, Rockbridge, Bath, Alleghany, Botetourt and Craig shall constitute the twenty-fifth district.
(26) The Cities of Harrisonburg and Winchester and the Counties of Frederick, Clarke, Warren, Shenandoah, Page and Rockingham shall constitute the twenty-sixth district.
(27) The Cities of Galax and Radford and the Counties of Pulaski, Wythe, Carroll, Montgomery, Floyd, Giles, Bland and Grayson shall constitute the twenty-seventh district.
(28) The City of Bristol and the Counties of Smyth and Washington shall constitute the twenty-eighth district.
(29) The Counties of Tazewell, Buchanan, Russell and Dickenson shall constitute the twenty-ninth district.
(30) The City of Norton and the Counties of Wise, Scott and Lee shall constitute the thirtieth district.
(31) The Cities of Manassas and Manassas Park, and the County of Prince William shall constitute the thirty-first district.
1972, c. 708; 1973, c. 546; 1974, c. 297; 1976, c. 126; 1977, c. 5; 1983, c. 149; 1986, c. 405; 1987, c. 624; 1992, c. 744; 2006, c. 861; 2016, cc. 164, 312.
Structure Code of Virginia
Title 16.1 - Courts Not of Record
§ 16.1-69.2. Effect of repeal of Title 16 and amendment of Title 16.1
§ 16.1-69.3. Certain notices, recognizances and processes validated
§ 16.1-69.5. Meaning of certain terms
§ 16.1-69.6. Establishment of districts
§ 16.1-69.6:1. Number of judges
§ 16.1-69.7:1. Establishment of certain district courts
§ 16.1-69.8. Existing courts continued and redesignated; exception
§ 16.1-69.9. Judges in office continued; terms of judges; how elected or appointed
§ 16.1-69.9:1. Appointment, terms, etc., of substitute judges
§ 16.1-69.9:3. Investigation and certification of necessity before vacancies filled
§ 16.1-69.9:4. Same; election of successor judges
§ 16.1-69.10. Number of judges
§ 16.1-69.11. Chief judges; judges; substitute judges
§ 16.1-69.11:1. Acting chief judge
§ 16.1-69.12. Limitations on practice of law by judges
§ 16.1-69.14. Number of substitute judges
§ 16.1-69.15. Qualifications of judges
§ 16.1-69.16. Residence requirements
§ 16.1-69.17. Oath of office of judges, clerks and others
§ 16.1-69.17:1. Time within which a judge may qualify; failure to do so vacates office
§ 16.1-69.18. Bonds of judges, clerks, and others handling funds
§ 16.1-69.19. Incompatible offices
§ 16.1-69.21. When substitute to serve; his powers and duties
§ 16.1-69.22. Removal of judges and substitute judges
§ 16.1-69.22:1. Temporary recall of retired district court judges; evaluation
§ 16.1-69.23. In what cases judge disqualified
§ 16.1-69.24. Contempt of court
§ 16.1-69.25. Judge may issue warrants, summons, and subpoenas
§ 16.1-69.25:1. Judge shall order bill of particulars; time for motion
§ 16.1-69.26. Judges as conservators of the peace
§ 16.1-69.27. Additional powers of judges
§ 16.1-69.28. Commitment of insane, etc., persons
§ 16.1-69.29. Jurisdiction over certain waters
§ 16.1-69.30. District system within unified court system
§ 16.1-69.31. The duties of the Judicial Council
§ 16.1-69.32:1. Substitution of counsel
§ 16.1-69.33. Committee on District Courts
§ 16.1-69.35. Administrative duties of chief district judge
§ 16.1-69.35:01. Location of district courts for Albemarle County
§ 16.1-69.35:1. Location of district courts for Carroll County
§ 16.1-69.35:2. Recording of proceedings in district courts
§ 16.1-69.36. Where process returnable and trials held in certain cases
§ 16.1-69.37. Personnel continued in office
§ 16.1-69.38. Authorization for substitute judges and personnel
§ 16.1-69.39. Appointment of personnel
§ 16.1-69.39:1. Legal service to district court employees and magistrates
§ 16.1-69.40. Powers and duties of clerks; civil liability
§ 16.1-69.40:3. Financial responsibilities of judges and clerks
§ 16.1-69.44. Salaries of judges
§ 16.1-69.45. Salaries of clerks and personnel
§ 16.1-69.46. How salaries payable
§ 16.1-69.47:1. Travel expenses of judges and clerks; how paid
§ 16.1-69.48:1.01. Additional fee assessed for conviction of certain offenses
§ 16.1-69.48:1.02. Additional fee assessed for conviction requiring computer analysis
§ 16.1-69.48:2. Fees for services of district court judges and clerks and magistrates in civil cases
§ 16.1-69.48:3. Fees charged to drug offenders
§ 16.1-69.48:4. Costs generally
§ 16.1-69.48:6. Fees for offenses related to sex trafficking
§ 16.1-69.50. Quarters for court and clerk
§ 16.1-69.51. Books, supplies, etc.; how furnished; Committee to determine form of records
§ 16.1-69.51:1. Display of flags in courtrooms
§ 16.1-69.53. Definitions; construction of references to period of years
§ 16.1-69.54. General provisions
§ 16.1-69.54:1. Request for district court records
§ 16.1-69.55. Retention of case records; limitations on enforcement of judgments; extensions
§ 16.1-69.56. Retention of financial and administrative records