CHAPTER 280

An Act to amend and reenact § 15.1-585 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to the appointment of tie breakers in counties generally. H 445
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Approved March 31, 1966

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 15.1-535 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
as follows:

§ 15.1-535. The circuit court of each county, or the judge thereof
In vacation, shall designate a tie breaker, whose duty it shall be to cast
the deciding vote in case of tie, as set forth in § 15.1-540 which designation
shall be by order entered in the common law order book. Every tie breaker
so appointed shall serve for a period of four years from the date of his
appointment; provided, that except as provided in § 15.1-50 no person shall
be appointed or serve as tie breaker who is not qualified to hold office as
supervisor or who is an employee or officer of the county. Tie breakers
heretofore [prior to June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred sixty-two]
appointed or elected shall continue in office until the expiration of the
respective terms. First appointments pursuant to the provisions of this
section, as amended, shall be made to fill vacancies existing on or occurring
subsequent to the date this section shall take effect [June twenty-ninth,
mineteen hundred sixty-two]. Every appointment made pursuant to
the provision of this section to fill a vacancy, whether occasioned by the
expiration of a term or otherwise, shall be for a period of four years.