Chap. 11.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 10 of Chapter 1 of the Acts
of the General Assembly, Extra Session 1936, known as the Virginia Unemploy-
ment Compensation Act, so as to reduce the number of Unemployment Com-
pensation commissioners, from three to one, to provide for said one commis-
sioner’s ‘immediate appointment and for his compensation and to authorize the
Unemployment Compensation Commission to utilize the services of Federal
employment officers in the administration of said act. [S B 58]

Approved February 11, 1942

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That Section
ten of Chapter one of the Acts of the General Assembly, Extra Session
nineteen hundred and thirty-six, known as the Virginia Unemployment
Compensation Act, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 10. Unemployment Compensation Commission.—

(a) There is hereby created a commission, to be known as the Unem-
ployment Compensation Commission of Virginia. The commission shall
consist of one commissioner who shall be appointed by the Governor,
subject to confirmation by the General Assembly, if in session when such
appointment is made, and if not in session, then at its next succeeding ses-
sion. Said commissioner shall be appointed for a term of four years.
Appointments to fill vacancies shall be for the unexpired terms. The said
commissioner may be suspended or removed by the Governor at his
pleasure. Said commissioner shall receive as compensation for his services
the sum of sixty-five hundred dollars per annum. The terms of the two
members of the commission existing at the time this act takes effect shall
immediately cease and determine as of the time of the taking effect of this
act. The Virginia State Commissioner of Labor shall no longer be a mem-
ber of the Unemployment Compensation Commission, but he shall give his
full co-operation and assistance to said commission in the administration
of the Virginia Unemployment Compensation Act.

(b) Said commissioner shall, before entering upon the discharge of
his duties, give bond payable to the Commonwealth of Virginia, in form
approved by the Attorney General, in such penalty as shall be fixed,
from time to time, by the Governor, with some surety or guaranty com-
pany duly authorized to do business in this State and approved by the
Governor as security, conditioned upon the faithful discharge of his
duties; the premium of such bond shall be paid by the commission, and
the bond shall be filed with and preserved by the Comptroller.

(c) The commission may establish two co-ordinate divisions; the
Virginia State Employment Service, created pursuant to section twelve of
this act, and the Unemployment Compensation Division. Each division
shall be responsible for the discharge of its distinctive functions. Each
division shall be a separate administrative unit, with respect to personnel,
budget, and duties, except in so far as the commission may find that such
separation is impracticable. In lieu, however, of establishing said two
divisions the commission may co-operate with and utilize the personnel
and services of employment offices or services operated by the United
States or any of its authorized agencies but only to the extent necessary
for said Federal employment offices or services to perform the functions
imposed upon employment offices by section three (a) of the Virginia
Unemployment Compensation Act, which provides that “all benefits shall
be paid through employment offices, in accordance with such regulations
as the commission may prescribe,” and the functions imposed upon said
offices by section four (a) of said act, which provides that, in order for
an unemployed individual to be eligible to receive benefits with respect
to any week, he must have “registered for work at and thereafter has
continued to report at an employment office in accordance with such regu-
lations as the commission may prescribe.”

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from the time of
its passage.