CHAPTER 312

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered
15.1-9.1, to provide for the appointment of county attorneys in cer-
tain counties and to relieve the Commonwealth’s attorney of certain
duties in the event of appointment of such county attorney. :

[S 220]

Approved March 31, 1964

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding a section numbered
15.1-9.1, as follows:

§ 15.1-9.1. The governing body of any county having a density of
population in excess of five hundred inhabitants per square mile and
adjoining a city situated wholly within the State and having a population
in excess of two hundred thousand may create the office of county attorney.
Such a county attorney to be appointed annually by the county manager,
and who shall serve at a salary to be fixed by the board of county super-
visors. In the event of the appointment of such county attorney, the
Commonwealth’s attorney shall be relieved of the duties of advising the
board of county supervisors, of drafting or preparing county ordinances
and of defending or bringing civil actions in which the county or any of
its officials shall be a party, and all such duties shall be performed by the
county attorney and he shall be accountable to the county manager in all
such matters.