CHAPTER 515

An Act to amend and reenact § 22-64 of the Code of Virginia, relating to
terms of members of county school boards. CH 660]

Approved March 29, 1958

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

L That § 22-64 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
ollows:

§ 22-64. The members of the county school board shall be appointed
within sixty days prior to July first, ninteen hundred 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 having 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 follow-
ing 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.

However in any county having five or more school districts, and in
which it is found by the school trustee electoral board that it is not to the
best interest of the schools for the terms of the school board members from
two certain districts to expire simultaneously and such terms have been
so expiring, then the school trustee electoral board may, on the next oc-
casion thereafter for appointing successors to the school board members
m such two districts, appoint the member from one of such districts
a term of one year and the other for a term of four years wtth appoint-

nts thereafter to be made as provided in the first paragraph hereof.
An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.