CHAPTER 80

An Act to amend and reenact § 15.1-710 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to boards of public welfare in certain counties, so as to correct an
error therein.

[H 243]

Approved February 28, 1968

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 15.1-710 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
as follows:

§ 15.1-710. County board of public welfare and superintendent of
public welfare.—The board of county supervisors shall select three quali-
fied citizens of the county, one of whom may be a member of the board
of county supervisors, who shall constitute the county board of public
welfare. Such board shall, in so far as not inconsistent with this form of
county organization and government, exercise all the powers conferred,
and perform all the duties imposed, upon county boards of public welfare
by law. There also shall be a superintendent of public welfare who shall
be chosen by the board of county supervisors, or by the county board of
public welfare if the board of county supervisors so provides, from a list
of eligibles furnished by the * Director of Welfare and Institutions. He
shall, in so far as not inconsistent with this form of county organization
and government, exercise all the powers conferred and perform all the
duties imposed upon superintendents of public welfare by general law.
The county board of public welfare and the superintendent of public
welfare shall also perform such other duties as shall be required by the
board of county supervisors.