Chap. 85.—An ACT to provide for a continuing board of assessors of real estate
in certain counties; to prescribe the term of office and the powers, duties and
compensation of the members of such board; and to repeal Chapter 152 of
the Acts of Assembly of 1940, approved March 7, 1940, which provides for
boards of equalization of real estate assessments in certain counties, and
all amendments thereto. (H 121)

Approved March 3, 1948

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. Section 1. Any county having a population of not more
than thirty thousand and adjoining a city having a population
of not less than one hundred thousand nor more than one hundred
fifty thousand, according to the last preceding United States census,
shall have a continuing board of assessors of real estate. Such
board shall be composed of not less than three nor more than five
members, who shall be resident freeholders of the county, and shall
be appointed by the circuit court of the county, or the judge thereof
in vacation, and whose term of office shall be two years from and
after the first day of July next following such appointment. The
first appointment hereunder shall be made in the month of June,
nineteen hundred forty-eight, and subsequent appointments shall
be made in the month of June of each successive two years
thereafter.

Section 2. The powers and duties of such board shall be the
same as the powers and duties conferred and imposed upon boards
of assessors of real estate assessments by general law; and for
the exercise of such powers and the performance of such duties
the board shall meet annually at the courthouse of the county, on
the first day of October of each year, and shall continue in session
as long as the board of supervisors, with the approval of the judge
of the circuit court of the county, may deem it necessary. Such
board shall elect one of its members as chairman and another as
secretary and may employ such clerks and other assistants and call
in such advisors as the board may deem necessary or expedient,
and fix their compensation, subject to the approval of the board
of supervisors or other governing body of the county. The members
of such board shall each receive as compensation not less than
ten dollars per day for each day actually engaged in the performance
of their duties hereunder, which, together with the other com-
pensation above provided for, shall be paid out of the general fund
in the county treasury.

2. Chapter one hundred fifty-two of the Acts of Assembly
of nineteen hundred forty, approved March seven, nineteen hundred
forty, and all amendments thereto, are repealed.

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