Chap. 28.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2773-n 29 of the Code of
Virginia, relating to boards of county supervisors under the county manager
form of government, so as to provide that in counties having not more than
four magisterial districts and adjoining a city in this State having a popula-
tion of 180,000 inhabitants or more according to the last preceding United
States census, the members of the boards of county supervisors shall be
elected by the qualified voters of the magisterial districts of such ane

Approved February 26, 1938

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion twenty-seven hundred and seventy-three-n twenty-nine of the Code
of Virginia be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 2773-n 29. The powers of the county as a body politic
and corporate shall be vested in a board of county supervisors, to con-
sist of not less than three nor more than seven members to be elected
by the qualified voters of the county. There shall be on the board for
each magisterial district one member, and no more, who shall be a
qualified voter of such district.

If any county having more than seven or less than three magisterial
districts adopts this form of government, the said board shall consist
of five members elected from the county at large. But if at least sixty
days prior to any election of such board the number of such districts
be reduced to not more than seven nor less than three, the members
of such board shall be elected as prescribed in the foregoing paragraph.

The supervisors first elected shall hold office until the first day of
January following the next regular election provided by general. law
for the election of supervisors. At such election their successors shall
be elected for terms of four years each.

Provided, however, that in any county having not more than four
magisterial districts and adjoining a city lying wholly in the State of
Virginia having a population of one hundred and eighty thousand in-
habitants or more, according to the last preceding United States census,
the board of county supervisors shall consist of one member from each
magisterial district of such county: each such member shall be a quali-
fied voter of his district and shall be elected by the qualified voters
thereof. In any such county where the county manager form has al-
ready been adopted, this amendment shall be effective at the next suc-
ceeding regular election provided by general law for the election of
supervisors, and the supervisors first so elected by districts shall take
office at the expiration of the terms of the present members of the
board.

Any vacancy on the board of county supervisors shall be filled by
the judge of the circuit court of the county; his appointee shall hold
office during the remainder of the term of his predecessor in office.