CODE OF VIRGINIA

MEANING OF CERTAIN TERMS (§ 16.1-69.5)

Unless the context should otherwise require, the terms set out in this section
shall be construed as follows:

   (a.  shall mean all courts in the Commonwealth below the jurisdictional level
   of the circuit courts including general district courts and juvenile and
   domestic relations district courts;

   (b.  shall mean all courts not of record, except juvenile and domestic
   relations district courts in counties and cities heretofore designated as
   county and municipal courts;

   (c.  shall mean all courts in counties and cities heretofore designated as
   juvenile and domestic relations courts or regional juvenile and domestic
   relations courts;

   (d.  shall mean general district courts and juvenile and domestic relations
   district courts;

   (e.  and “municipal courts” shall be deemed to refer to general
   district courts;

   (f.  and “regional juvenile and domestic relations courts” shall
   be deemed to refer to juvenile and domestic relations district courts; and

   (g.  shall mean that judge so designated for a term to assume primary
   administrative responsibility for the general district courts or the juvenile
   and domestic relations district courts in the district served by such judge.

HISTORY: 1972, c. 708; 1973, c. 546; 1975, c. 334.