CODE OF VIRGINIA

PRESIDING JUSTICE WHEN CHIEF JUSTICE ABSENT (§ 17.1-301)

In the absence of the Chief Justice, the justice longest in continuous service
present shall be the presiding justice. If two or more justices have served for
the same period, the justice senior in years of these present shall be the
presiding justice.

HISTORY: Code 1919, § 5863, § 17-95; 1938, p. 134; 1998, c. 872.