CHAPTER 509

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 16.1-202.3 and 16.1-202.4 of the Code of
Virginia, relating to commissions for juvenile detention facilities.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 16.1-202.3 and 16.1-202.4 of the Code of Virginia be amended
and reenacted as follows: ;

§ 16.1-202.8. A juvenile detention commission shall consist of not
less than six members, comprising not less than two members, but always
an even number, from each participating political subdivision having a
population of twenty-five thousand or more, and one member from each
participating political subdivision having a population of less than twenty-
five thousand, and appointed by the city council or county board of super-
visors, as the case may be (hereinafter referred to as “governing body’’)
thereof; provided, that in any city having a population of more than sev-
enty-two thousand but less than eighty-four thousand, the judge of the
circuit court of such city shall make such appointments. One-half of the
members first appointed * from a political subdivision entitled to two or
more members shall serve for two years and one-half for four years. After
the first appointment, the term of office of all members shall be for four
years; in case of an appointment of a single member * , his term of office
shall be for four years.

§ 16.1-202.4. The members * appointed by the governing bodies of
the participating political subdivisions shall be selected from a list of eli-
gible persons containing at least twice as many names as there are ap-
pointments to be made by the governing bodies, submitted by a committee
of persons appointed by the respective governing bodies for the purpose of
making such recommendations. ;

The appointive members of the commission * shall, together with the
ex officio members, constitute the commission, and the powers of the com-
mission shal] be vested in and exercised by the members in office from time
to time. The judge of the juvenile and domestic relations court or the
judge acting in juvenile matters in each participating political subdivision
shall ex officio be a member of the commission.

A majority of the members in office shall constitute a quorum. The
commission shall elect a chairman, and shall adopt rules and regulations
for its own procedure and government. The governing bodies of the partici-
pating political subdivisions may by ordinance or resolution provide for
the payment of compensation to the members of the commission and for
the reimbursement of their actual expenses incurred in the performance of
their duties.

All prior appointments to juvenile detention commissions, whether
made by the governing body of a participating political subdivision or by
the judge of the circuit court having jurisdiction thereof, are hereby vali-
dated; and no action by a commission pursuant to this article shall be
declared invalid by reason of the invalidity of an appointment, heretofore,
of a commission member.

2. Anemergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.