Chap. 295.—An ACT to amend and re-enact: section 780 of the Code of Virginia,
as enacted into law by chapter 471 of the Acts of the General Assembly of
1928, approved March 26, 1928, said chapter being an act to revise, consolidate,
amend and codify the school laws of Virginia relating to the public school
system, as heretofore amended, the section here amended being in relation to
school trustees. [S B 366]

Approved March 24, 1932

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
seven hundred and eighty of the Code of Virginia, as enacted into law
by chapter four hundred and seventy-one of the Acts of the General
Assembly of nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, approved March
twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, said chapter being an
act to revise, consolidate, amend and codify the school laws of Virginia
relating to the public school system, as heretofore amended, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 780. The council of each city except as otherwise provided
by the city charter shall except where the charter of the city provides
otherwise, on or before July first, nineteen hundred and thirty, appoint
three trustees for each school district in such city, whose term of office
shall be three years, respectively, and one of whom shall be appointed
annually. The first appointment hereunder shall be one for one year,
one for two years, and one for three years, beginning July first, nine-
teen hundred and thirty, and thereafter all appointments shall be for
three years. If a vacancy occurs in the office of trustee at any time
during the term, the council shall fill it by appointing another for such
part of the term as has not expired. Within thirty days preceding the
day on which the term of said trustees shall expire by limitation, and
within the like number of days preceding the day on which the term
of any trustee shall expire by limitation in any subsequent year, such
council shall appoint a successor to each such trustee in office, whose
term shall commence when the term of predecessor shall have expired;
provided, the office of any such trustee has not been abolished in re-
districting the city; and, provided, that in the city of Richmond and
the city of Norfolk trustees shall be appointed in accordance with the
provisions of this act rather than in accordance with the provisions
of the city charter, and further, that the common council for the city
of Winchester shall select and appoint the school trustees for said city,
and that in all other respects the provisions of this section shall apply
to the city of Winchester; and that all acts heretofore done by the
school board of the city of Winchester are hereby validated. All trus-
tees now in office shall continue in office until the expiration of the term
for which they were appointed, and thereafter until their successors
have been appointed and have qualified.