CHAPTER 168

An Act to amend and reenact § 15-505 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to certain counties wherein, in certain instances, members of the
board of supervisors may transact business with such counties. 987]

Approved March 1, 1962

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 15-505 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
as follows:

§ 15-505. But in a county having a population of not less than
twenty-one thousand inhabitants, nor more than twenty-three thousand
inhabitants, exclusive of the towns in such county, in which county is
located a town having a population of not less than thirty-seven hundred
inhabitants, § 15-504 shall not be construed to prohibit a physician living
in such county from receiving compensation from the county for medical
services rendered the poor in the rural sections of such county when
employed for such purpose by the proper legal authorities, or from receiv-
ing the statutory fee for serving on a commission to examine a person
alleged to be insane, epileptic or feeble-minded, when duly summoned for
such purpose, notwithstanding the fact that such physician may be a
member of the board of supervisors of such county. And in any county
having an area of more than five hundred square miles and a population
of less than fifteen per square mile according to the United States census
of nineteen hundred and thirty, § 15-504 shall not be construed to pro-
hibit an undertaker living in such county from furnishing caskets for,
and preparing for burial, embalming and burying, paupers of such county
and receiving compensation therefor from the county, when requested so
to do by the proper legal authorities, notwithstanding the fact that such
undertaker be a member of the board of supervisors of such county. And
wn any county having a population of not less than fifteen thousand nor
more than fifteen thousand one hundred inhabitants, § 15-504 shall not
be construed to prohibit a wholesale grocery company, situated in such
county from furnishing and supplying wholesale grocery items to such
county and receiving compensation therefor from such county, when such
wholesale grocery company is the only such company in such county and
when requested so to do by the proper legal authorities, notwithstanding
the fact that a member of the board of supervisors of such county may
be a director or stockholder of such wholesale grocery company.

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