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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>350160</law_id><section_number>17.1-515.3</section_number><catch_line>Designation of courtrooms within twenty-first and twenty-third circuits for trial of certain cases</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2026/" slug="2026" current="TRUE" last_updated="2026-08-02">2026</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="50" identifier="17.1">Courts of Record</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="5" identifier="5">Circuit Courts</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1">Establishment; Jurisdiction; Etc</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The <span class="dictionary">chief judge</span> of the twenty-first and the twenty-third judicial <span class="dictionary">circuits</span> may, by <span class="dictionary">order</span>, as in the interest of justice may appear, designate one or more of the courtrooms of any <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">court</span> within their respective <span class="dictionary">circuits</span> as the courtroom or courtrooms in which civil and criminal cases whose <span class="dictionary">venue</span> is laid within the <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> may be tried; provided, that in criminal cases, jurors summoned to appear at such courtroom or courtrooms shall reside in the vicinage of which the <span class="dictionary">crime</span> is laid.</p></section></text><history>1976, c. 272; 1977, c. 195, &#xA7; 17-126.3.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
