Chap. 332.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 13 of an Act entitled ‘‘An Act
to provide for the compensation of attorneys for the Commonwealth in the
counties and cities, county and city treasurers, and county and city commis-
sioners of the revenue, and officers and employees performing the duties of
such officers in counties which adopt optional forms of county organization and
government; to prescribe the method of fixing and paying their salaries and
the expenses of the operation of their offices; to provide for the payment of
such salaries and expenses; to provide for the disposition of the fees collected
by such officers; to provide for a Compensation Board to administer this act;
to provide for the powers, duties and functions of such board; to abolish the
State Fee Commission; to appropriate funds for the payment of salaries and
expenses and for the administration of this act; and to repeal all acts and parts
of acts inconsistent with this act,’’ approved March 29, 1934, as heretofore
amended, in relation to the salaries and expenses of commissioners of the revenue
in cities containing more than 175,000 inhabitants. [S B 102]

Approved March 29, 1940

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That
section thirteen of an act entitled “fan act to provide for the compen-
sation of attorneys for the Commonwealth in counties and cities,
county and city treasurers, and county and city commissioners of the
revenue, and officers and employees performing the duties of such
officers in counties which adopt optional forms of county organization
and government; to prescribe the method of fixing and paying their
salaries and the expenses of the operation of their offices; to provide
for the payment of such salaries and expenses; to provide for the
disposition of the fees collected by such officers; to provide for a
Compensation Board to administer this act; to provide for the powers,
duties and functions of such board; to abolish the State Fee Commis-
sion; to appropriate funds for the payment of salaries and expenses
and for the administration of this act; and to repeal all acts and parts
of acts inconsistent with this act,’’ approved March twenty-ninth,
nineteen hundred and thirty-four, be amended and re-enacted so as
to read as follows:

Section 13. The salaries fixed in accordance with the preceding
part of this act shall be paid in equal monthly installments, and the
expenses of office within the limits fixed by the board, shall be paid
monthly on the submission of satisfactory evidence that such expenses
were actually incurred.

The salaries and expenses of attorneys for the Commonwealth in
counties and cities shall be paid in the proportion of one-half by the
respective counties and cities and one-half by the Commonwealth.
The salaries and expenses of treasurers and commissioners in the
counties and cities shall be paid in the proportion of two-thirds by
the respective counties and cities and one-third by the Common-
wealth; provided, however, the salaries and expenses of commissioners
of the revenue in cities containing more than one hundred and seventy-
five thousand inhabitants according to the last preceding United
States census which have provided a board for the annual assessment
of real estate separate and apart from the commissioner of the revenue
shall be paid in the proportion of one-half by the respective cities and
one-half by the Commonwealth; and, provided, that the salary and
expenses of any city treasurer who neither collects nor disburses local
taxes or revenue shall be paid entirely by the Commonwealth, and
that the salary and expenses of any city treasurer who disburses local
revenues but does not collect the same shall be paid in the proportion
of one-third by the city and two-thirds by the Commonwealth.

The State’s proportion of the salaries and expenses of the treasurers
and commissioners of the revenue under this act shall be paid out of
the appropriations in the general appropriation act for assessing
property for taxation and collecting and distributing records of assess-
ments and for collecting State taxes and the State’s proportion of the
salaries and expenses of the attorneys for the Commonwealth shall be
paid out of the appropriation in the general appropriation act for
criminal charges. The cost for administering this act shall be paid
out of the fees paid into the State treasury pursuant to the provisions
of this act. Such payments shall be made by the State Treasurer on
warrants of the Comptroller, issued on vouchers signed by the chair-
man of the Compensation Board.

The several salaries fixed by the Compensation Board in accord-
ance with the preceding part of this act to be paid for the year nine-
teen hundred and thirty-five shall continue as so fixed for the suc-
ceeding years at the same amounts; provided, however, that the said
Compensation Board may thereafter increase or decrease the salary of
any particular officer, within the limits fixed by this act, when in its
opinion, changed circumstances so require, or when, so requested in
writing, prior to July first of the calendar year preceding the year for
which such change is requested, by the council, board of supervisors
or other governing body having jurisdiction, or by the officer whose
compensation is affected. Such request by the local governing body
or by the officer affected shall set forth in detail the facts and circum-
stances upon which such request for a change is based.