CHAPTER 42

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 24-87 as amended, and 24-89 of the Code
of Virginia, relating, respectively, to compensation of secretaries and
members of electoral boards generally and compensation of such sec-
retaries and members in certain cities and counties. CH 100]

Approved February 18, 1958

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 24-837 as amended, and 24-39 of the Code of Virginia, be
amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 24-37. The secretary of the electoral board shall receive from the
county, city or town for each day of actual service the sum of ten dollars;
provided, that the governing body of any county, city or town may supple-
ment the compensation herein prescribed for the secretary. Each other
member of the electoral board shall receive from the county, city or town,
respectively, for each day of actual service the sum of seven dollars and
fifty cents, and the same mileage as is now paid to jurors; provided that
no member of such board shall receive from the county, city or town, re-
spectively, more than one hundred fifty dollars in any one year, exclusive
of mileage, and provided further that in any county adjoining any county
having a density of population of one thousand or more a square mile each
member of the board shall receive for each day of actual services the sum
of fifteen dollars, and may receive as much as but not in excess of five
hundred dollars in any one year, exclusive of mileage; provided that in any
county having a population in excess of two thousand inhabitants per
square mile and in any county adjoining a city lying wholly in the State
and having a population of more than one hundred ninety thousand each
member of the board shall receive for each day of actual services the sum
of ten dollars and may receive as much as, but not in excess of, three hun-
dred dollars in any one year, exclusive of mileage, and provided further
that in the event one or more special elections be held in any county, city
or town in any year, the members of the electoral board shall be paid
additional amounts at the same per diem, and mileage.

§ 24-39. The council of any city or the governing body of any coun-
ty containing more than fifty thousand inhabitants may provide additional
compensation for members of the electoral board, which shall not be less
than three hundred dollars for the secretary and fifty dollars for each
other member of the board.