Chap. 192.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1 of Chapter 328 of the Acts
of Assembly of 1920, approved March 19, 1920, relating to composition and ap-
pointment of the State Board for the Examination and Certification of Archi-
tects, Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors. [H 269]

Approved March 11, 1944

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section one of chapter three hundred twenty-eight of the
Acts of Assembly of nineteen hundred twenty, approved March nineteen,
nineteen hundred twenty, be amended and re-enacted, as follows:

Section 1. (a) The State Board for the Examination and Certifi-
cation of Architects, Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors is con-
tinued. The Board shall be composed of three architects, three pro-
fessional engineers and three land surveyors to be appointed by the
Governor and all vacancies occurring on the Board shall be filled by the
Governor. |

(b) The terms of present incumbents shall expire on June thirty,
nineteen hundred forty-four, and their successors shall be appointed by
the Governor, as follows: three, one from each profession, for terms to
expire five years; three, one from each profession, for terms to expire
four years; three, one from each profession, for terms to expire three
years, from June thirty, nineteen hundred forty-four.

(c) Thereafter as the terms of office respectively of the members
expire by limitation the Governor shall appoint, to fill the vacancies so
occasioned, qualified persons whose terms shall be for five years from
the day on which that of their immediate predecessors expired.

(d) The members of the Board shall have been in the active prac-
tice of their respective professions as principals or as instructors therein
for not less than ten years previous to their appointment.

(e) Members shall hold office until their successors have been duly
appointed and have qualified.

(f) No person shall be eligible to serve for or during more than two
successive terms, and incumbency during the current term when this
amendment takes effect constitutes the first of the two successive terms
with respect to eligibility for appointment.

(g) The Governor may remove any member of the Board for mis-
conduct, incapacity, or neglect of duty and he sha'l be the sole judge
of the sufficiency of the cause for removal. He shall report every such
removal at once to the General Assembly if it 1s in session, and if not at
the beginning uf the next session.