CHAPTER 489

An Act to amend and reenact § 14-62, and §§ 14-86, 14-95 and 14-145, as
amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the filing of requests
for salary by certain officers, to factors to be considered in fixing
salaries of sheriffs, to the exemption of certain cities from the pro-
visions of Article 9, Chapter 1 of Title 14, and to the filing of certain
statements by certain fee officers.

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Approved March 31, 1962

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 14-62, and §§ 14-86, 14-95 and 14-145, as amended, of the
Code of Virginia, be amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 14-62. On or before the fifteenth day of October in every year,
except the year in which they are elected and on or before November fif-
teenth in any such year, or at any time after June first in any year when-
ever requested by the chairman of the board and within ten days after
such request, every attorney for the Commonwealth, every city and
county treasurer and commissioner of the revenue, every county sheriff
and every city sergeant of a city which operates a jail and also the ser-
geants of the cities of Martinsville, * Suffolk and South Norfolk shall file
with the chairman of the board, upon forms prescribed by it, a written
request for the allowance of such officer’s salary, and the expenses of his
office, stating the amount of salary requested, and itemizing each item of
expense for which allowance is sought, and every such officer shall con-
currently file a copy of the request with the governing body of the county
if the officer be a county officer or with the governing body of the city if
the officer be a city officer.

The chairman of the board may, at any time, submit to any such
officer a written questionnaire concerning the affairs of his office, to ascer-
tain all facts relevant to the determination of the proper allowance to be
made with respect to the officer’s salary and the expenses of his office.
Every officer shall answer fully and completely all questions so pro-
pounded and shall return the questionnaire to the chairman within five
days.

§ 14-86. The annual salary of the sheriff of each county shall be not
less than thirty-six hundred dollars and not more than ten thousand
dollars. The annual salary of the sergeant of each city chartered prior to
December one, nineteen hundred fifty-three, shall be not less than thirty-
six hundred dollars and not more than ten thousand dollars. The annual
salary of a full-time deputy of a sheriff or of a sergeant shall be not
more than three-fourths of the compensation fixed for the sheriff or ser-
geant of his county or city, as the case may be.

In fixing the salary of each sheriff and sergeant, and of each of their
full-time deputies, the Compensation Board shall take into consideration
the length of service of such sheriff, sergeant or deputy, the population
and area of the county or city for which he is elected or appointed, the
number of persons committed to the jail thereof, the aggregate number
of days spent by prisoners in the jail thereof, the compensation pre-
viously received by the sheriff or sergeant and each of their full-time
deputies, the amount of fees collected by such officers and such other
factors as the Compensation Board deems proper.

The salaries shall be fixed, as far as is consistent with the factors
hereinbefore required to be considered, according to the following schedule:

(1) In the counties of Amelia, Appomattox, Bland, Charles City,
Clarke, Craig, Cumberland, Essex, Fluvanna, Gloucester, Goochland,
Greene, Highland, James City, King George, King and Queen, Madison,
Mathews, Middlesex, New Kent, Northumberland, Powhatan, Rappahan-
nock, Richmond, Surry and Westmoreland, the salary of each sheriff shall
be not less than thirty-six hundred dollars and not more than six thou-
sand dollars per annum;

(2) In the counties of Bath, Charlotte, Culpeper, Floyd, King Wil-
liam, Lancaster, Louisa, Page, Stafford and Spotsylvania, the salary of
each sheriff shall be not less than thirty-six hundred dollars and not more
than six thousand dollars;

(8) In the,counties of Botetourt, Buckingham, Loudoun, Lunenburg,
Nelson, Patrick, Shenandoah and Warren, the salary of each sheriff shall
be not less than thirty-six hundred dollars and not more than six thou-
sand dollars per annum;

(4) In the counties of Amherst, Fauquier, Caroline, Grayson, Greens-
ville, Isle of Wight, Prince Edward, Sussex, York and Nottoway, the
salary of each sheriff shall be not less than four thousand dollars and not
more than seven thousand dollars per annum;

(5) In the counties of Alleghany, Albemarle, Bedford, Brunswick,
Campbell, Carroll, Dickenson, Dinwiddie, Frederick, Giles, Henry, Meck-
lenburg, Northampton, Prince George, Hanover, Orange, Pulaski, Rock-
bridge, Smyth, Southampton, Prince William and Wythe, the salary of
each sheriff shall be not less than four thousand five hundred dollars and
not more than eight thousand dollars per annum;

(6) In the counties of Accomack, Chesterfield, Halifax, Henrico,
Montgomery and Scott, the salary of each sheriff shall be not less than
four thousand five hundred dollars and not more than nine thousand
dollars per annum;

(7) In the counties of Augusta, Buchanan, Franklin, Lee, Nanse-
mond, Pittsylvania, Roanoke, Rockingham, Russell, Tazewell, Washington
and Wise, the salary of each sheriff shall be not less than four thousand
five hundred dollars and not more than nine thousand five hundred dollars
per annum;

(8) In the counties of Arlington, Fairfax, Princess Anne and Nor-
folk, the salary of the sheriff shall be not less than five thousand dollars
and not more than ten thousand dollars per annum;

(9) In the cities of Buena Vista, Norton and Williamsburg, the salary
of each sergeant shall be not less than three thousand six hundred dollars
and not more than six thousand dollars per annum;

(10) In the cities of Bristol, Charlottesville, Clifton Forge, Virginia
Beach, Fredericksburg, Hopewell, Martinsville, Suffolk, Radford, Staunton,
Winchester, * Waynesboro and South Norfolk, the salary of each sergeant
shall not be less than three thousand six hundred dollars and not more than
seven thousand dollars per annum;

(11) In the cities of Hampton, Lynchburg, Newport News, Peters-
burg and Portsmouth, the salary of each sergeant shall be not less than
four thousand five hundred dollars and not more than nine thousand five
hundred dollars per annum;

(12) In the cities of Richmond, Norfolk, Roanoke, Alexandria and
Danville, the salary of each sergeant shall be not less than five thousand
dollars and not more than ten thousand dollars per annum, provided, how-
ever, that in counties or cities having a population of more than ninety
thousand and two or more courts of record or two or more judges of the
same court of record, the Compensation Board, in its discretion, may make
an additional allowance not to exceed one thousand dollars.

§ 14-95. The provisions of this article except § 14-85 shall not apply
to any city which does not operate a jail, nor to the sergeant of such city,
but they shall, however, apply in every respect to the cities of Martinsville,
Staunton, Suffolk, Winchester, * Virginia Beach and South Norfolk, and
to the sergeants thereof, respectively. All of the provisions of this article
shall, however, apply in every respect to each city which operates a jail,
and to the sergeant thereof. In every such case the sergeant shall have su-
pervision and control of the jail and the custody of all prisoners confined
therein, and other provisions of law, general, special or local, to the con-
trary notwithstanding.

§ 14-145. The sheriff of the city of Richmond, every clerk of a
court of record except the clerk of the Supreme Court of Appeals, every
high constable and the sergeant of every city which does not operate a jail,
except the sergeants of the cities of Martinsville, Suffolk, * Winchester and
South Norfolk shall annually, within fifteen days after the close of each
anniversary of the beginning of the term of his office, file with the State
Compensation Board a full and accurate statement showing all such fees,
allowances, commissions, salaries or other emolument of office, derived
from the State or any political subdivision thereof, or from any other
source whatever, collected or received by him and a like statement of all
such fees, allowances, commissions and salaries, chargeable under the law,
but not collected by him, during the year ending December thirty-first next
preceding. Such statements shall be verified by affidavit.

CHAPTER 489

An Act to amend and reenact § 15-688, as amended, of the Code of
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Approved March 31, 1962

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 15-688, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 15-688. The board of supervisors of any county may, if they deem
expedient, acquire, in addition to the two acres of land aforementioned, as
much as twenty acres of land at any point within their county to be used
for county purposes, and in counties having a density of population of
three hundred or more per square mile, in counties adjoining a county
having a population of more than one thousand per square mile, and in
counties having a population of not less than forty thousand nor more
than seventy thousand, and adjoining three cities within this State, one of
which cities has a population of two hundred and twenty-five thousand
or more, and in counties having a population of more than seventy thou-
sand, and adjoining four cities in the State, as much as one hundred fifty
acres for county purposes including the use of the local board of health,
and for such other purposes as the governing bodies of such counties may
deem to be necessary, and in counties having a population of more than
* one hundred thousand but less than one hundred twenty-five thousand,
as much as one thousand acres for county purposes and for such other
purposes as the board of supervisors may deem necessary.

. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.