Chap. 360.—An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new
section, numbered section 644-a, relating to who may be chosen members
of a county school board, and to repeal chapter 499 of the acts of assembly
of 1928. [H B 260]

Approved March 24, 1930

I. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
Code of Virginia be amended by adding thereto a new section, num-
bered section six hundred and forty-four-a, which new section shall
read as follows:

Section 644-a. No Federal, State or county officer, or any deputy
of such officer, and no supervisor shall be chosen or allowed to act as
member of the county school board, provided that the provisions here-
in obtained, shall not apply to fourth-class postmaster, county superin-
tendents of the poor, commissioners in chancery, commissioners of ac-
counts, registrars of vital statistics, notary public, clerks and employees
of the Federal government in Washington; and provided, further, that
in Northumberland county a justice of the peace or an oyster inspector
may be chosen and allowed to act as a member of the county school
board of said county. Each member of the board at the time of his
election shall be a bona fide resident of the magisterial district from
which he is elected, and if he shall cease to be a resident of said dis-
trict, his position on the county board shall be deemed vacant. ,

Z. Chapter four hundred and ninety-nine of the acts of assembly
of nineteen hundred and twenty-eight is hereby repealed.