CHAPTER 401

An Act to amend and reenact § 15-233, as amended, of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to chairmen and vice-chairmen ‘of county boards of
supervisors.

[S 314]

Approved March 30, 1962
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 15-233, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 15-233. * The board shall, at * its first meeting after * election, *
elect one of * its number as chairman, who shall preside at such meet-
ing and all other meetings during the * term for which so elected, if
present. The board also may elect a vice-chairman who shall, if so
elected, preside at meetings in the absence of the chairman and may
discharge any other duty of the chairman during his absence or dis-
ability. Chairmen and vice-chairmen may be so elected to serve for
terms corresponding with their terms as supervisors or may be elected
annually. Whenever any board, at the time of such election, shall fatl
to designate the specific term of office for which a chairman or vice-
chairman is elected, it shall be presumed that such chairman or vice-
chairman was so elected for a term of one year or until his successor as
chairman or vice-chairman shall have been elected. Chairmen and vice-
chairmen may succeed themselves in office. In the case of the absence
from any meeting of the chairman and vice-chairman, if any, the members
present shall choose one of their number as temporary chairman.