CHAPTER 321

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 22-67 of the Code of 1950, relating
to compensation of members of school boards so as to increase
the same in certain counties.

[H 687]
Approved April 4, 1950

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 22-67 of the Code of 1950 be amended and reenacted
as follows:

§ 22-67. Salary of members.—The county school board may
in its discretion pay each of its members an annual salary not ex-
ceeding one hundred eighty dollars, payable in equal monthly in-
stallments, and mileage to each member for each day he is in at-
tendance upon meetings of the board, not to exceed five cents per
mile for each mile of travel by the most direct route in going to
and returning from the place of meeting; provided that the county
school board of any county may in its discretion, pay to any mem-
bers of such board who serve on the committee for control of any
joint school established under the provisions of § 22-7 an additional
amount not in excess of ninety dollars per annum. Such salary
and mileage shall be paid as other school expenses are paid.

Provided that in counties adjacent to cities having, according
to the last preceding United States census, a population of one
hundred thousand or more, and in counties having a density of
population of more than five hundred per square mile, the county
school] board may pay each of its members an annual salary of
three hundred dollars, payable in equal monthly installments, and
in each county having a population in excess of forty thousand and
ng eight or more magisterial districts, the county school board
pay each of its members a maximum annual salary of three
ired dollars in equal monthly installments, and in each county
ining a city lying wholly within this State with a population
xcess Of one hundred seventy-five thousand, according to such
us, the county school board may pay each of its members an *
ial salary * not to exceed nine hundred dollars, payable in
1 monthly installments, and provided further, that in cities
ng a population of not less than eighteen thousand nor more
twenty-three thousand, and in cities having a population of
less than thirty thousand nor more than thirty-five thousand,
ich case according to the United States census latest preceding,
school board may provide and pay a per diem not exceeding
lollars to each member for each day he is in attendance upon
ings of the board, not to exceed twenty-four days in any one