CHAP. 467.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1487 of the Code re-
lating to the division superintendent of schools, his appointment, term
of office, vacancy, and qualification. (H. B. 398.)

Approved March 22, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section fourteen hundred and thirty-seven of the Code be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows: —

Sec. 1437. Within thirty days before April first, nineteen
hundred and seventeen, and every four years thereafter, the
State board of education shall, subject to the confirmation of
the Senate, appoint one division superintendent of schools for
each school division that the State board may, in its discretion,
establish according to law, provided that no federal officer, ex-
cept a fourth-class postmaster, no supervisor, or county or
State officer, except a notary public, or any deputy of said offi-
cers shall be chosen or allowed to act as division superintendent
of schools. In the event that the State board of education fails
to elect a division superintendent for each division on or before
April first of the year in which said election is due to take place,
the division superintendent of schools then in office for each
division in which the board fails to elect according to law shall
be declared elected for the succeeding four years from July first
of said year, provided he is an applicant. In the event the board
fails to make in the time specified an election in any school
division where the former superintendent is not an applicant,
either because of a dead-lock or the lack of a duly qualified ap-
plicant, the board is instructed to attach said division to some
one of the adjacent school divisions. The board shall not con-
sider for division superintendent of schools any man who does
not hold, or has not held a State teacher’s license the equivalent
of a first grade certificate, or who has not already held the office
of division superintendent, or who has not been a teacher for
such number of years as the board may designate, and in order
that an applicant for the position of division superintendent may
know what qualifications are required of him, the State board of
education is hereby required to publish on the first day of Feb-
ruary of the year in which said election is to take place, a state-
ment showing the minimum qualifications for the position of
division superintendent of schools, which statement shall be
furnished to all applicants on request.

The, term of office of the said division superintendent shall
be four years from the first day of July following his appoint-
ment.

The office of any division superintendent shall be deemed
vacant upon the refusal of the senate to confirm his nomination,
his removal from the division for which he was appointed, his
engaging in any other business or employment during his term
of office as such superintendent, unless such superintendent shall
have been accepted under the provisions of sub-section first of
section fourteen hundred and thirty-three of the Code of Vir-
yinia as amended, his resignation or his removal from office by
the State board of education. Every division superintendent,
before entering upon the discharge of the duties of his office,
shall take and subscribe the oath prescribed for all officers of
the State, which oath shall be made and subscribed before a cir-
cuit or corporation court having jurisdiction in his division, or
before the judge or clerk thereof in vacation. As soon as the
oath shall have been taken, subscribed and certified, a minute
of the fact shall be entered in the records of said court and a
certificate of the clerk setting forth the qualification and its
record shall be furnished the superintendent of public instrue-
tion for record in his office.