Chap. 286.—An ACT to amend and reenact section 2707 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended by the Acts of the General Assembly of 1936, Chapter 44, and
the Acts of Assembly of 1938, Chapter 338, in relation to supervisors and other
paid officers of the county not being interested in certain contracts. [H 383]

Approved March 16, 1948

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section twenty-seven hundred seven of the Code of
Virginia, as amended by the Acts of the General Assembly of nine-
teen hundred thirty-six, Chapter forty-four, and the Acts of the
General Assembly of nineteen hundred thirty-eight, Chapter three
hundred thirty-eight, in relation to supervisors and other paid
officers of the county not being interested in certain contracts, be
amended and reenacted to read as follows:

Section 2707. No supervisor, superintendent of the poor or
overseer of the poor, constable, special police, commissioner of the
revenue, treasurer, attorney for the Commonwealth, clerk of the
court, trial justice, sheriff or any paid officer of the county shall
become interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract, or in
the profits of any contract, made by or with any officer, agent,
commissioner, or person acting on behalf of the supervisors, the
county school board, or superintendent of the poor of the county,
or any overseer of the poor therein, or in any contract, fee, commis-
sion, premium or profit therefrom, paid, in whole or in part, by the
county or any board, commission or agency thereof, or in the sale
or furnishing of supplies or materials to such county, and shall not
become interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract, or in the
profits of any contract, made by or with any officer, agent, com-
missioner, trustee, or overseer for working and keeping in repair
the public roads in the county.

And no supervisor shall, except by descent or devise, marriage
or as a personal representative, committee of an insane person, or
guardian, become interested, directly or indirectly, in any claim
against his county, whether the same shall have been passed upon
by the board of supervisors or not. Any such contract shall be void
and the amount embraced by any such contract, the value of any
such supplies or materials, and the amount of any such claim shall
never be paid; or, if paid, may be recovered back, with interest, by
the county, in the circuit court of the county, by action or motion,
within two years from the time of payment. Provided, however, in
a county having a population of not less than twenty-one thousand
inhabitants, nor more than twenty-three thousand inhabitants,
exclusive of the towns in said county, in which county is located
a town having a population of not less than thirty-seven hundred
inhabitants, this section shall not be construed to prohibit a physi-
cian living in such county from receiving compensation from the
county for medical services rendered the poor in the rural sections
of such county when empowered for such purposes by the proper
legal authorities, or from receiving the statutory fee for serving on
a commission to examine a person alleged to be insane, epileptic or
feeble-minded, when duly summoned for such purpose, notwith-
standing the fact that such physician may be a member of the board
of supervisors of such county ; provided further, that in any county
having an area of more than five hundred square miles and a popu-
lation of less than fifteen per square mile according to the United
States census of nineteen hundred and thirty, this section shall
not be construed to prohibit an undertaker living in such county
from furnishing caskets for, and preparing for burial and embalm-
ing, and burying, paupers of such county and receiving compen-
sation therefor from the county, when requested so to do by the
proper legal authorities, notwithstanding the fact that such under-
taker be a member of the board of supervisors of such county.

The term “contract” as herein used, shall not be held to in-
clude the depositing of county or town funds in, or the borrowing
of funds from, local banks in which members of the board of super-
visors, members of the school board, or other county officers
herein named may have a stock interest; nor shall it include the
granting of franchises to or purchase of services from public service
corporations. Provided, however, this section shall not apply to
attorneys for the Commonwealth employed by the governing bodies
of counties under the provisions of sections two hundred fifty-
one and four hundred three of the Tax Code or section twenty-
five hundred three of the Code of Virginia to collect taxes which
are a lien on real estate.