CODE OF VIRGINIA

CONTEST OF OTHER PRIMARIES AND ELECTIONS (§ 24.2-806)

In a primary for the United States House of Representatives, the Virginia
Senate, the House of Delegates, or any county, city, town, or district office,
or an election to any county, city, town, or district office, the proceeding to
contest shall be in the circuit court of the county or city in which the
challenged candidate resides.  The proceeding shall be before a special court
composed of the chief judge of such circuit court and two circuit court judges
of circuits remote from the county or city in which such candidate resides,
appointed by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia, or, in the
event of his inability to act, then by the next senior justice, who shall at the
time of appointment set the date for trial.If the chief judge of the circuit
court of the city or county in which the candidate resides is absent, unable to
sit in the proceeding, or recuses himself, the clerk of the court shall at once
certify that fact to the Chief Justice.  Then the Chief Justice or the associate
justice acting in his stead shall appoint a third judge, who shall be, if
possible, a judge of the same or an adjoining circuit.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 24-394; 1952, c. 489; 1970, c. 462, § 24.1-239; 1981, c.
570; 1987, c. 341; 1993, c. 641.