Chap. 189.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 615, as heretofore amended, of
the Code of Virginia, relating to the division of the State into school divisions
and the salaries of division superintendents. : [S B 163]

Approved March 11, 1942

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

Section 615. Division of State Into School Divisions; Salaries of
Division Superintendents.—The State Board of Education shall divide
the State into appropriate school divisions, in the discretion of said board,
comprising not less than one county or city each, but no county or city
shall be divided in the formation of such division. The division superin-
tendent shall receive as a minimum salary twenty-two hundred dollars
per year, provided he is employed for his full time in a school division
with a school population of not less than three thousand. In each division
with a school population of less than three thousand, however, the mini-
mum salary shall be fourteen hundred dollars per year or, in the discre-
tion of the State Board of Education, for part time employment, one
thousand dollars. The superintendent may, by permission of the State
Board of Education, act as school principal or undertake other related
school work, in which case his salary as superintendent shall not exceed
one-half of the established minimum of twenty-two hundred dollars per
year. In school divisions with a school population of over three thousand
the division superintendent shall receive, in addition to the minimum of
twenty-two hundred dollars, ten dollars per hundred for each hundred
school population above three thousand, allowing in each computation
numbers in excess of fifty to count as the next higher even hundred. One-
half of the salary thus determined shall be paid by the State treasurer in
monthly installments out of the available funds on the warrants of the
Comptroller upon the approved voucher or vouchers required by the
Comptroller, and the other half shall be paid by the city council or county
board of supervisors out of the general fund of the city or county. The
local school board may, out of the local fund, supplement the salary above
prescribed and provide for the traveling and office expenses of the super-
intendent ; provided, the specific amounts and the purposes for which
such amounts are designated be reported to and approved by the State
Board of Education, provided that school boards of those divisions in
which the salary of the division superintendent may be reduced by the
scale herein provided, shall, out of the local school funds, pay such sup-
plement as is necessary to provide for the year beginning July first, nine-
teen hundred and forty-two, a salary at least equal to the salary paid for
the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and forty-two. The State
Board of Education shall, in accordance with the provisions of this section,
fix the salaries of the division superintendents for the year beginning
July first, nineteen hundred and forty-two, and for each year thereafter
based upon the school population as shown in the census of nineteen hun-
dred and forty, and in the census of each succeeding five year period.