Chap. 151.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 655 of the Code of Virginia,
as heretofore amended, relating to school boards. [H B 198]

Approved March 24, 1934

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
six hundred and fifty-five of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore
amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 655. The business relating to school matters shall be trans-
acted by the school board at its meetings held as provided by law.
At the first meeting of the school board of any county, city or town,
after the taking effect of this section it shall elect one of its members
chairman and on recommendation of the division superintendent, elect
or appoint a competent person as clerk of the school board, and shall
fix his compensation. The chairman and clerk shall be selected annually.
The board shall meet at such other times as necessity may require. The
division superintendent shall be present at all meetings of the school
board. In any case in which there shall be a tie vote of the board upon
any question, or if such tie vote occur at a meeting when all the mem-
bers are not present, the proceedings thereon shall be in conformity
with the proceedings prescribed by section twenty-seven hundred and
seventeen in case of a tie vote of the board of supervisors, and the
commissioner in chancery appointed under the provisions of section
twenty-seven hundred and eighteen to cast the deciding vote in case
of a tie vote of the board of supervisors, shall be deemed to have been
also appointed for the purpose of casting the deciding vote in case of
a tie vote of the school board, and shall be called in by the school
board for that purpose.

Nothing in this act shall apply to the election of the division super-
intendent of the school of any division in said county or counties, city
or town.

An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its passage.