17.1-301 - Presiding justice when Chief Justice absent.
§ 17.1-301. Presiding justice when Chief Justice absent.
In the absence of the Chief Justice, the justice longest in continuousservice present shall be the presiding justice. If two or more justices haveserved for the same period, the justice senior in years of these presentshall be the presiding justice.
(Code 1919, § 5863, § 17-95; 1938, p. 134; 1998, c. 872.)