TITLE 17.1. COURTS OF RECORD.

§ 17.1-100.
See § 2.2-720; HB 2321.

§§ 17.1-113, 17.1-114, and 17.1-121 amended.
Designation of courtrooms. Restores a provision, repealed in a title revision, which allows the chief judges of the Twenty-first (Martinsville, Henry, and Patrick) and the Twenty-third (Roanoke, Salem, and Roanoke County) Judicial Circuits to designate particular courtrooms within their respective circuits as civil or criminal courtrooms. HB 1994; CH. 389.

§§ 17.1-124, 17.1-131, 17.1-213, 17.1-240, 17.1-249, 17.1-275, 17.1-278, 17.1-279, 17.1-513, and 17.1-520.
See § 8.01-2; SB 1118.

§ 17.1-207.
See § 1-200; HB 2640.

§§ 17.1-258.2 through 17.1-258.5.
See § 55-108; SB 992.

§ 17.1-275 amended.
Fees collected by clerks of circuit courts; authorization to use funds for office expenses. Provides that court clerks shall use the fees paid for copying to recoup the costs of providing the copies, with the balance of the funds paid to the Commonwealth. Funds sufficient to recoup the cost of making copies shall be deposited with the locality, which shall in turn appropriate funds to support copying costs. Such costs shall include lease and maintenance agreements, but shall not include salaries or related benefits. HB 1706; CH. 373.

§§ 17.1-275.1, 17.1-275.2, 17.1-275.7, and 17.1-805.
See § 18.2-61; HB 2248.

§ 17.1-279 amended.
Technology Trust Fund Fee. Prohibits, beginning July 1, 2006, transfers from the Technology Trust Fund Fee for purposes not specifically enumerated in the law, including transfers to the general fund. SB 902; CH. 738.

§ 17.1-314 amended.
Executive Secretary to the Supreme Court of Virginia; qualifications. Removes the requirement that the executive secretary meet the qualifications of a judge of a court of record and allows, instead, the justices of the Supreme Court to prescribe any qualifications. SB 1341; CH. 237.

§ 17.1-501 amended.
Exercise of appointive powers by circuit court judges. Removes the burden of each judge of a circuit having to sign an order of appointment and allows the chief judge, or his designee, to do so on behalf of all the judges of the circuit. HB 2533; CH. 183.

§ 17.1-507 amended.
Number of circuit court judges. Creates a new circuit court judgeship in the 28th Judicial Circuit (Bristol, Washington, Smyth). HB 2662; CH. 190/SB 1167; CH. 231.

§ 17.1-516.
See § 16.1-69.29; HB 2527/SB 1180.

§§ 17.1-619 and 17.1-623 amended.
Courts of record; how jurors paid. Allows jurors to be paid in cash or by electronic transfer. HB 2287; CH. 173.

§ 17.1-802 amended.
Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission; membership. Requires that the current composition of the Commission include the chairmen of the Committees for Courts of Justice or their designees. HB 2649; CH. 596.

§§ 2.2-3705.7 and 17.1-913 amended.
Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission; confidentiality; Freedom of Information Act. Exempts the Commission from the Freedom of Information Act and also requires that ethical advice given to a judge by an attorney employed by the Commission and any attendant records be kept confidential. The bill allows the Commission to share such advice, without identifying the judge, with the judicial ethics advisory committee established by the Supreme Court. SB 1157; CH. 508.