Chap. 94.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 644-a, as heretofore amended, of
the Code of Virginia, relating to who may not be members of county school
boards. [fH B 93]

Approved March 2, 1942

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
six hundred and forty-four-a of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore
amended, be amended and re-enacted, as follows:

Section 644-a. No State or county officer, or any deputy of such
officer, and no supervisor shall be chosen or allowed to act as a member
of the county school board, provided that the provisions herein contained,
shall not apply to county superintendent of the poor, commissioners in
chancery, commissioner of accounts, registrars of vital statistics, notaries
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 in-
spector may be chosen and allowed to act as a member of the county
school board, and in the county of Lunenburg, a member of the county
library board, a member of the board of public welfare, and a justice of
the peace may be chosen and allowed to act as a member of the county
school board. Each member of the board at the time of his election shall
be a bona fide resident of the magisterial district or town from which he
is elected, and if he shall cease to be a resident of said district or town, his
position on the county school board shall be deemed vacant, except in
counties where magisterial districts have been abolished, in which case
he may be appointed at large, but he must be a bona fide resident of that
county and upon his ceasing to be a resident of that county his position on
the county school board shall be deemed vacant.

2. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.