CHAPTER 497

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 15-916 of the Code of Virginia, relating to
county planning commissions, their creation and appointment. 8 27}
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Approved March 30, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 15-916 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
follows:

§ 15-916. The board of supervisors of any county may create and
appoint a county planning commission for the county. The commission
shall consist of not less than five nor more than fifteen persons, one of
whom * may be the county manager, county executive, county engineer
or county director of public works, when such officers are provided for
as parts of the county administration, and one of whom may be a member
of the board of supervisors. All members of the county planning com-
mission, other than as provided above, shall be appointed by the county
board of supervisors for terms of four years. The county board of
supervisors may prescribe for the original appointees terms of office
of various lengths, so that not more than one-third of the subsequent
appointments, other than to fill vacancies, may be made during any
calendar year. The board may provide for the payment of expenses and
a reasonable compensation for members of the commission who are not
county employees.

Except for one member of the board of supervisors, the appointive
members shall not be elective public county officers nor assistants to
elective public county officers, though any of the appointive members may
be a member of another planning commission.

The county planning commission is authorized to appoint from its
membership an executive committee, consisting of the chairman and
not less than four other members. The executive committee may exercise
between meetings of the commission all powers of the commission, or
such powers as the commission determines.