Chap. 345.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2773-h of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to county managers. [H B 296]

Approved March 29, 1934

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-seven hundred and seventy-three-h of the Code of Virginia be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 2773-h. In addition to other duties as are or may be
prescribed by law or directed by the board, the county manager in
counties having a population of five hundred or more per square mile,
shall each year on or before March fifteenth, prepare and submit to
the board a tentative budget, prepared in accordance with the pro-
visions of law in effect governing the preparation of the county budget
and showing in detail the recommendations of the county manager
for expenditures on each road and bridge or for other purposes. Prior
to April thirtieth, but not thereafter, the board may alter, amend or
change any item reported by the county manager, and shall set the
rate for local levies of taxation on or before April thirtieth of each
year. In the event of the failure of the board to act thereon, the ten-
tative budget as prepared and submitted by the county manager shall
be deemed the county budget and be in full force and effect, sub-
ject to the provisions of law as to the county budget. After the county
budget has become effective, no changes shall be made in the allo-
cations of funds as therein made, unless such change is recommended
by the county manager and approved by the board, provided, that in
no event shall any change of more than ten per centum be made in
any allocation.

The county manager shall be the executive and administrative of-
ficer of the county, in all matters relating to the public roads and
bridges of the county, and the other public work and business of
the county, except public schools, and shall have general supervision
and charge of all construction and maintenance of the public roads,
bridges and landings of the county, and all public works and business
of the county, except public schools, and the purchase of all supplies,
equipment and materials for the roads, bridges and landings and other
public works and business of the county, and the employment of all
superintendents, foremen and labor therefor.

The county manager shall keep the board advised as to the fi-
nancial condition of the county, and at each regular meeting of the
board he shall present to the board an itemized statement of all ex-
penditures made by him since his last report, and on or before July
fifteenth of each year shall file with the clerk of the board an item-
ized statement showing the amount expended on each road, bridge
or for other purposes for the year preceding, ending June thirtieth.

The term of office of such county manager shall expire on Decem-
ber thirty-first of each year, but, except as hereinafter provided, he
shall be notified at least sixty days before the expiration of the year
if his services are not desired for the ensuing year. He shall receive
such annual salary as the board may prescribe, payable in monthly
installments from county funds. He shall devote his full time to
the performance of the duties imposed on him by law, and the per-
formance of such duties as may be directed by the board.

The board may at any time remove the county manager for neglect
of duty, malfeasance or misfeasance, in office, or incompetency.