Chap. 212.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6 of Chapter 379, Acts of 1938,
approved March 31, 1938, the short title of which is “Virginia Public Assistance
Act of 1938.”, so as to provide that one member of the board of public welfare of
each county shall be a member of the governing body of such county, or ap-
pointed from a list furnished by such governing body. [S B 38]

Approved March 13, 1942

1. Berit enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
six of chapter three hundred and seventy-nine of the Acts of the General
Assembly of nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, the short title of which
is “Virginia Public Assistance Act of 1938,” be amended and re-enacted,
as follows:

Section 6. Continuance of Local Boards of Public Welfare in
Counties and Cities of Second Class; Appointment; Expenses, Officers
in Charge of Departments or Divisions of Public Welfare in Cities of
First Class—(a) Except as hereinafter otherwise provided in this act,
all existing provisions of law in relation to boards of public welfare of
counties and of cities of the second class, and in relation to the officers in
charge of the departments or divisions of public welfare in cities of the
first class, which boards and officers are referred to in this act as “local
boards,” shall continue in force.

(b) There shall be a local board in each county and city of the
State. The officer in charge of the department or division of public wel-
fare of each city of the first class shall be the local board of such city.

(c) The local board in each county shall consist of three members,
residents of the said county, appointed by the judge of the circuit court
of such county; the local board in each city of the second class shall
consist of three members, residents of the said city, appointed by the
judge of the corporation court of such city, or if there be no such court
then by the judge of the circuit court having jurisdiction within such city.
One member of the local board of each county shall be a member of the
board of supervisors or other governing body of such county, unless the
board of supervisors or other governing body determines otherwise, in
which case one member of the local board shall be appointed from a list of
three persons submitted by the board of supervisors, and one member of
the local board of any city of the second class may, in the discretion of
the judge making the appointment, be a member of the council or other
governing body of such city. The members of each such local board first
appointed under the provisions of this act shall be appointed one for a
term of one year, one for a term of two years, and one for a term of
three years; subsequent appointments shall be for a term of two years
each, except appointments to fill vacancies, which shall be for the unex-
pired terms. Members of any such local boards may be suspended or
removed for cause by the State board or by the judge or other officer,
board or body authorized to appoint the members of the said local board.

(d) Two members of the local board of a county or city of the
second class shall constitute a quorum.

(e) Each member of the local board of a county or of a city of
the second class, shall be paid his necessary traveling and other expenses
incurred in attendance upon meetings and while otherwise engaged in
the discharge of his duties as such member. In addition to such expenses,
the board of supervisors or other governing body of each county and
the council or other governing body of each city of the second class may,
out of the general fund of such county or city, pay to each member of the
local board of such county or city, as compensation for his services as
such member, not in excess of one hundred dollars per year; but no such
county or city shall be reimbursed out of either State or Federal funds
for any part of such compensation so paid.

(f{) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section, in
any county which has adopted, or shall hereafter adopt, the county execu-
tive form of organization and government, and in any county which has
adopted, or shall hereafter adopt, the county manager form of organiza-
tion and government provided for in sections twenty-seven hundred and
seventy-three-a to twenty-seven hundred and seventy-three-n, both in-
clusive, of the Code of Virginia, and in any county in which the clerk of
the board of supervisors is some person other than the county clerk and
in which county such clerk of the board of supervisors acts as executive
manager of the county under appointment by said board by virtue of the
provisions of section twenty-seven hundred and seventy-a of the Code
of Virginia, the local board shall, while such form of organization and
government remains in effect in such county, be appointed by the board
of county supervisors, board of supervisors or other governing body of
such county, and the said board of county supervisors, board of super-
visors or other governing body may fix within the limits hereinabove set
forth, the compensation of such local board, and in any county which
has adopted, or shall hereafter adopt, the county manager form of organ-
ization and government provided for in sections twenty-seven hundred
and seventy-three-n one to twenty-seven hundred and seventy-three-n
fifty-six, both inclusive, of the Code of Virginia, the local board shall,
while such form of organization and government remains in effect in
such county, be appointed by the county manager, who may fix, within
the limits above set forth, the compensation of the members of such
board.
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