§ 17.1-301 Presiding justice when Chief Justice absent
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
The record of this law’s original creation isn’t available online. The oldest record of it is its appearance in the Code of Virginia of 1919, as §§ 5863 and 17-95. It has been modified 2 times. Those modifications are cataloged by “The Acts of Assembly,” a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly’s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 1938, at page 134; in 1998, chapter 872.
Code 1919, § 5863, § 17-95; 1938, p. 134; 1998, c. 872.