CHAPTER 255

An Act to amend and reenact § 15.1-628 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to county boards of supervisors. (H 821]

Approved March 31, 1966

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 15.1-623 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
as follows: .

§ 15.1-623. The powers of the county as a body politic and cor-
porate shall be vested in a board of county supervisors, to consist of not
less than three nor more than seven members to be elected by the qualified
voters of the county. There shall be on the board for each magisterial
rata one member, and no more, who shall be a qualified voter of such

If any county having more than seven or less than three magisterial
districts adopts this form of government, the board shall consist of five
members elected from the county at large. But if at least sixty days prior
to any election of such board the number of such districts in any county
having more than seven or less than three districts be reduced or increased,
as the case may be, to not more than seven nor less than three, the
members of such board shall be elected as prescribed in the foregoing
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The supervisors first elected shall hold office until the first day of
January following the next regular election provided by general law for
the election of supervisors. At such election their successors shall be
elected for terms of four years each.

But in any county having not more than four magisterial districts
and adjoining a city lying wholly in the State having a population of one
hundred and eighty thousand inhabitants or more, the board of county
supervisors shall consist of one member from each magisterial] district of
such county; each such member shall be a qualified voter of his district and
shall be elected by the qualified voters thereof.

Any vacancy on the board of county supervisors shall be filled by
the judge of the circuit court of the county; his appointee shall hold office
during the remainder of the term of his predecessor in office.