CHAPTER 159

An Act to amend and reenact § 15-240 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to tie breakers, so as to provide for the election thereof in certain

counties.
[H 295]
Approved February 29, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 15-240 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
as follows: _

§ 15-240. The circuit court of each county, or the judge thereof
in vacation, shall designate one of the commissioners in chancery of
such court, whose duty it shall be to cast the deciding vote in case of tie,
as set forth in § 15-245 which designation shall be by order entered in
the common law order book. The appointment may be changed from
time to time, as the court or judge thereof in vacation may deem proper,
and any substituted commissioner shall take the place of his predecessor
just in the condition as to notice or other matters as if he had always

n the commissioner; provided that in any county having a population
in excess of ninety-seven thousand according to the last preceding United
States census, and containing an even number of magisterial districts,
there shall be elected at the regular election to be held in November,
nineteen hundred fifty-two, and thereafter at the elections at which mem-
bers of the board of supervisors of such county are elected, a tie breaker
for such board, who shall, on and after December one, nineteen hundred
fifty-three, exercise in such county all the powers and perform all the
duties conferred or imposed by law upon tie breakers. In the event of a
vacancy in the office of the tie breaker in any such county, the court or
judge shall designate a commission to serve as such until the next regular
election, at which time a tie breaker shall be elected for the unexpired term,
who shall take office December one following his election.