Chap. 271.—An ACT to provide a new method of appointment of the members of
county school boards, and to prescribe their terms of office. [S B 181]

Approved March 19, 1942

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, as follows:

Section 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the con-
trary, when the school trustee electoral boards of the several counties ap-
point the members of the county school board for their respective counties,
for the terms beginning the first day of July, nineteen hundred and forty-
four, such appointments shall be for terms as follows: if there be three
members, one shall be appointed for a term of two years, one for a term
of three years, and one for a term of four years; if there be four members,
one shall be appointed for a term of one year, one for a term of two years,
one for a term of three years, and one for a term of four years; if there be
more than four members, one shall be appointed for a term of one year,
one for a term of two years, one for a term of three years, and one for a
term of four years, and the remaining members shall be appointed for the
longest terms possible, not exceeding four years, which will result in hav-
ing the terms of the least possible number of members expire in any one
year. Within sixty days prior to the first day of July in each and every
year thereafter, the school trustee electoral board of each county, shall
appoint for terms of four years beginning the first day of July next fol-
lowing their appointment, successors to the members of the county school
boards of their respective counties, whose terms of office expire on the
thirtieth day of June in each such year. Vacancies occurring in the mem-
bership of the county school board of any county shall be filled for the un-
expired term, by the school trustee electoral board of such county.

Section 2. The foregoing provisions shall have no application to
the town school board members of county school boards, nor to the school
board of any county operating under any of the provisions of chapter one
hundred and nine-a of the Code of Virginia.