CHAPTER 587

An Act to amend and reenact § 58-940 of the Code of Virginia, relating to
county finance boards.
[H 453]

Approved April 6, 1954

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. ' tine § 54-940 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
as follows:

§ 58-940. For the purposes hereinafter indicated, there shall be for
each county of the Commonwealth a county finance board, which shall
consist of the chairman of the board of supervisors or other governing
body, the treasurer and a citizen of the county of proven integrity and
business ability. The chairman of the board of supervisors or other
governing body and the county treasurer shall be ex officio members of
the county finance board and the citizen member thereof shall be appointed
by the circuit court of the county or by the judge thereof in vacation. But
in any county adjoining any county having a population of more than five
hundred per square mile the county finance board shall consist of the
chairman of the board of supervisors or other governing body, the
treasurer, the Commonwealth’s attorney and a citizen of the county of
proven integrity and business ability. And the citizen member thereof
shall be appointed by the circuit court of the county or by the judge
thereof in vacation. The term of the citizen member of the county finance
board now in office shall expire December thirty-first, nineteen hundred
and forty-nine. Thereafter the term of the appointment of such member
shall be four years, but the circuit court of the county, or the judge thereof
in vacation, in his discretion, may remove for cause any such member and
appoint some other qualified citizen of the county in his stead for the
unexpired portion of his term.

The governing body of any county which has a county finance board
established under the provisions of this section may by ordinance duly
adopted abolish the finance board, whereupon all authority, powers, and
duties of the finance board shall vest in the governing body.