Chap. 186.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1625 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended, relating to composition and appointment of the Virginia State
Board of Examiners in Optometry. [H 270]

Approved March 11, 1944

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section sixteen hundred twenty-five of the Code of Virginia,
as amended, be amended and re-enacted, as follows:

Section 1625. (a) The Virginia State Board of Examiners in Op-
tometry, composed of five members, appointed by the Governor, estab-
lished by the act approved March eleventh, nineteen hundred sixteen, is
continued. All vacancies occurring on the Board shall be filled by the
Governor. The terms of members in office when this amendment takes
effect shall expire on June thirty, nineteen hundred forty-four.

(b) The Governor shall appoint their successors as follows: one
for a term to expire five years; one for a term to expire four years;
one for a term to expire three years; one for a term to expire two years:
and one for a term to expire one year, from June thirty, nineteen hundred
forty-four.
(c) Thereafter as the terms of office respectively of the members
expire by limitation the Governor shall appoint, to fill the vacancies so
occasioned, qualified persons whose terms shall be for five years from
the day on which that of their immediate predecessors expired.

(d) Each appointment on the Board may be made from a list of at
least three names for each vacancy submitted to the Governor, or to the
Governor-elect, by the Virginia Optometric Association, Incorporated.
Nominations are to be made to the Governor by June first of each year.

(e) The Governor shall notify the association promptly of any va-
cancy other than by expiration and like nominations may be made for the
filling of the vacancy.

({) In no case shall the Governor be bound to make any appoint-
ment from among the nominees of the association.

(g) No person shall be eligible to serve for or during more than
two successive terms, and incumbency during the current term when this
amendment takes effect constitutes the first of the two successive terms
with respect to eligibility for appointment.

(h) The Governor may remove any member of the Board for mis-
conduct, incapacity, or neglect of duty and he shall be the sole judge
of the sufficiency of the cause for removal. He shall report every such
removal at once to the General Assembly if it is in session, and if not
at the heginning of the next session.