CHAPTER 286

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 22-67 of the Code of 1950, relat-
ing to salaries of members of county school boards so as to
permit increase thereof in certain counties.

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Approved April 4, 1950

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 22-67 of the Code of 1950 be amended and reenacted
as follows: ‘

§ 22-67. Salary of members.—The county school board
may in its discretion pay each of its members an annual salary
not exceeding one hundred eighty dollars, payable in equal
monthly installments, and mileage to each member for each day
he is in attendance upon meetings of the board, not to exceed
five cents per mile for each mile of travel by the most direct
route in going to and returning from the place of meeting; pro-
vided that the county school board of any county may in its
discretion, pay to any members of such board who serve on the
committee for control of any joint school established under the
provisions of § 22-7 an additional amount not in excess of ninety
dollars per annum. Such salary and mileage shall be paid as
other school expenses are paid.

Provided that in counties adjoining a county having a popu-
lation in excess of two thousand a square mile the county school
board may pay each of its members an annual salary of not
exceeding six hundred dollars, payable in equal monthly in-
stallments, and in counties adjacent to cities having, according
to the last preceding United States census, a population of one
hundred thousand or more, and in counties having a density of
population of more than five hundred per square mile, the
county school board may pay each of its members an annua!
salary of three hundred dollars, payable in equal monthly in-
stallments, and in each county having a population in excess of
forty thousand and having eight or more magisterial districts,
the county school board may pay each of its members a maxi-
mum salary of three hundred dollars in equal monthly install-
ments, and in each county adjoining a city lying wholly within
this State with a population in excess of one hundred seventy-
five thousand, according to such census, the county school board
may pay each of its members a maximum annual salary of six
hundred dollars, payable in equal monthly installments, and pro-
vided further, that in cities having a population of not less
than eighteen thousand nor more than twenty-three thousand,
and in cities having a population of not less than thirty thousand
nor more than thirty-five thousand, in each case according to
the United States census latest preceding, the school board may
provide and pay a per diem not exceeding ten dollars to each
member for each day he is in attendance upon meetings of the
board, not to exceed twenty-four days in any one year.