Chap. 189.—An ACT to amend and reenact Section 615 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended, relating to school divisions and division superintendents of
schools. {H 234}

Approved March 11, 1948

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section six hundred fifteen, as amended, of the Code
of Virginia, be amended and reenacted 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 superintendent shall receive as a minimum salary three
thousand 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 more
than two thousand but less than three thousand, the minimum
salary shall be two thousand dollars per year; and in each division
having therein less than two thousand, a minimum basic salary
of sixteen hundred dollars. In school divisions with a school
population of over three thousand the division superintendent shall
receive, in addition to the minimum of three thousand 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. Of the above amounts,
the State shall contribute sixty per cent., the governing bodies of
the counties and cities shall contribute forty per cent., and in addi-
tion to such basic minimum annual salary the school board of each
county or city.shall contribute not less than six hundred dollars out
of the school funds in their respective treasuries derived from local
taxation or local appropriations. Approval of the State Board must
be secured for the employment of a part-time superintendent and
the State Board of Education must approve the conditions under
which the part-time superintendent may be employed and the
amount of salary to be fixed for services rendered as division super-
intendent, which salary shall be paid by the State and the county or
city respectively in the same proportion as above set out.
The amounts to be contributed by the State as above provided,
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. The
local school board may, out of the local fund supplement the salary
above prescribed, but in no case shall this local supplement be
reduced from the supplement paid as of January one, nineteen
hundred forty-seven, unless the total annual salary should exceed
ten thousand dollars, except by special permission of the State
Board of Education, and the local school board shall provide for
the traveling and office expenses of the superintendent; provided
the specific amounts and the purposes for which such amounts are
designated be reported to and approved by the State Board of
Education.