CHAPTER 450

An Act to amend and reenact § 15.1-550 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to procedure for allowance of claims by county board of supervisors.

[H 811]
Approved April 2, 1968

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 15.1-550 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
as follows:

§ 15.1-550. Procedure for allowance of claims.—No account shall be
allowed by the board of supervisors unless the same shall be made out in
separate items and the nature of each item specifically stated, and, when
no specific fees are allowed by law, the time actually and necessarily
devoted to the performance of any service charged in such account shall
be verified by affidavit, to be filed therewith. The attorney for the Com-
monwealth shall represent the county before the board, and shall resist the
allowance of any claim which is unjust or not before the board in proper
form, and upon proper proof, or which for any other reason ought not to
be allowed. And when any claim has been allowed by the board against
the county, which, in the opinion of such attorney, is improper or unjust,
or from which he shall be required to appeal by any six freeholders of
the county, he shall appeal from the decision of the board to the circuit
court of the county, causing a written notice of such appeal to be served
on the clerk of the board and the party in whose favor the claim is allowed
within thirty days after the making of such decision. Whenever any claim
is allowed by the board which is illegal, the attorney for the Common-
wealth, in the name of the county, shall institute proper proceedings in the
circuit court of his county within two years from the entry of the order
allowing the same, if such amount has already been paid. The attorney for
the Commonwealth shall be available to the board and * give his legal
opinion when * requested.