Chap. 245.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1, 9, and 11 of Chapter 396 of
the Acts of the General Assembly of 1940, approved April 1, 1940, relating to an
optional form of county organization and government, so as to permit the adop-
tion of such form by any county in the State having a density of population of
600 or more inhabitants per square mile of highland, and to permit certain
changes in the composition of the school board and the compensation of its
members provided for in said act. {[H B 236].

Approved March 18, 1942

1. Beit enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That sections
one, nine and eleven of chapter three hundred and ninety-six of the Acts
of the General Assembly of nineteen hundred and forty, approved April
first, nineteen hundred and forty, be amended and re-enacted, as follows:

Section 1. Any county in the State adjoining a county in the State
having, according to the last preceding United States census, a density of
population of six hundred or more inhabitants per square mile, and any
county in the State having a density of population according to such last
preceding census of six hundred or more inhabitants per square mile of
highland, is hereby authorized to adopt the County Board form of county
organization and government provided for in the following sections of this
act, by complying with the requirements and procedure hereinafter speci-

ed.

Section 9. (a) The executive secretary may be the clerk of the
board of county supervisors. He shall, unless otherwise excused, attend
all meetings of the board, and shall if designated as clerk record in a
book, to be provided for the purpose, all of the proceedings of the board.

(b) He shall, in so far as shall be required by the board of county
supervisors, be responsible to the board for the proper administration of
all affairs of the county which the board has authority to control. He shall
keep the board advised as to the financial condition of the county and shall
submit to the board monthly, and at such other times as shall be required,
reports concerning the administrative affairs of the county. |

(c) The executive secretary shall, if required by the board of county
supervisors, examine regularly the books and papers of each department,
officer and agency of the county and report to the board the condition in
which he finds them and such other information as the board may direct.

(d) He shall from time to time submit to the board such recom-
mendations concerning the affairs of the county and its departments, of-
ficers and agencies as he shall deem proper. , ,

(e) Under the direction of the board of county supervisors, the
executive secretary shall, each year at least two weeks before the board
must prepare its proposed annual budget, prepare and submit to the
board a proposed annual budget for the county ;‘he shall, in so far as re-
quired by the board, see that the budget as firially adopted is properly
executed. :

(f{) He shall audit all claims against the county, except those re-
quired to be received and audited by the county school board, and shall
present the same to the board of county supervisors together with his
recommendation and such information as shall be necessary to enable the
board to act with reference to such claims.

Section 11. (a) The county school board and the division super-
intendent of schools, shall exercise all the powers conferred and perform
all the duties imposed upon them by general law.

(b) The county school board shall be composed of (1) not less
than two nor more than six trustees chosen by the board of county super-
visors and (2) from each town within the county constituting a separate
town school district operating under a town school board, one trustee or
member selected annually by the town school board of such town from
its own membership. If the trustees or members of the county school
board first chosen by the board of county supervisors are three or less in
number they shall all be appointed for terms of four years, and subsequent
appointments shall be for terms of four years each. If the trustees or mem-
bers so chosen shall be four, five or six in number, one shall be ap-
pointed for a term of one year, one for a term of two years, one for a
term of three years, and so on up to the number of trustees or members
so appointed, and all subsequent appointments of trustees or members
chosen by the board of county supervisors shall be for terms of such num-
ber of years as there are trustees or members of the board chosen by the
board of county supervisors. All appointments to fill vacancies shall be for
the unexpired terms.

(c) Each trustee or member shall receive as compensation for his
services an annual salary of two hundred and forty dollars ($240.00),
payable in equal monthly installments and mileage at a rate not to exceed
five cents per mile for each mile of travel by the most direct route going
to and returning from the place of meeting.