Chap. 180.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 644-a of the Code of Virginia,
relating to certain officers who may not be members of county school boards.

[H B 317]
Approved March 12, 1940

1. Beit enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion six hundred and forty-four-a of the Code of Virginia, be amended
and re-enacted so as to 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
herein contained, shall not apply to fourth-class postmaster, county
superintendent of the poor, commissioners in chancery, commissioner
of accounts, registrars of vital statistics, notary public, clerks and
employees of the Federal government in Washington, officers and
employees of the District of Columbia; 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 district,
his position on the county board shall be deemed vacant, except in
counties where magisterial districts have been abolished.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its
passage.