CHAPTER 688

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 14.1-50, 14.1-51 and 14.1-66 of the Code
of Virginia, relating to the Compensation Board, and the salaries,
expenses and other allowances of attorneys for the Commonwealth,
city and county treasurers and commisstoners of the revenue, and
county sheriffs and city sergeants, so as to change the budgetary year
from calendar year to fiscal year.

[H 446]

Approved April 6, 1966

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 14.1-50, 14.1-51 and 14.1-66 of the Code of Virginia be
amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 14.1-50. Filing requests for salaries.— * At the times hereinafter
prescribed, 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 sergeants of the
cities of Martinsville and Suffolk 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 expense 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 concurrently 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. Such
requests shall be filed on or before October fifteenth, nineteen hundred
sixty-six for the six months’ period beginning January one, nineteen hun-
dred sixty-seven and ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred sixty-seven,
and at the same time requests shall be filed for the fiscal year beginning
July one, nineteen hundred sixty-seven and ending June thirtieth, nineteen
hundred sixty-eight. For the fiscal year beginning July one, nineteen
hundred sixty-eight and ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred sizxty-
nine, and for every fiscal year thereafter, such requests shall be filed on
or before April first preceding the beginning of the fiscal year for which
such requests are made.

The chairman of the Board may, at any time, submit to any officer
a written questionnaire concerning the affairs of his office, to ascertain
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 propounded and
shall return the questionnaire to the chairman within five days.

§ 14.1-51. Duties of Board in fixing salaries, expenses, etc.—All
salaries, expenses and other allowances of all such officers shall, if possible,
be fixed and determined * at least fifteen days before the beginning of each
budgetary period. The Board shall, at meetings duly called by the chair-
man, carefully consider the questionnaires and written requests filed as
required by § 14.1-50 and consider the work involved in the discharge of
the duties of the respective officers, the amount expended or proposed to
be expended by each for clerks, deputies and other assistants, the efficiency
with which the affairs of each such office are conducted, and such other
matters as the Board may deem pertinent and material, and after such
consideration the Board shall fix and determine what constitutes a fair
and reasonable salary which is to be paid to each such officer and to his
clerks, assistants and deputies, and all other expense items requested. Prior
to holding any such meeting for the fixing of salaries and expenses as
provided in this article, ten days’ written notice of the time, place and
purpose of such meeting shall be given every officer affected and to the
mayor or city manager of the city or to the chairman of the governing
body of the county affected.

When the salaries, expenses and other allowances for the several
counties and cities have been tentatively fixed by the Board they shall
notify the governing body of each city and county of the amounts so fixed.
Within thirty days thereafter, but not later, the governing body may file
with the Compensation Board any objection it may have to such allowances
so fixed. When such objection is filed the Board shall fix a time for a
hearing on such objection, of which time the governing body as well as
the officer affected shall have at least fifteen days’ notice. For the purpose
of determining the merits of such protest the governing body may designate
two members of such body to serve as additional members of the Com-
pensation Board and such additional members shall each have one vote on
the Board.

The chairman of the Board shall record the salary of each such officer,
his clerks, assistants and deputies, and the allowances made for other
tems, and shall promptly notify each such officer of the same with respect

is office.

§ 14.1-66. Appropriations chargeable with State’s proportion of
salaries, etc.—The State’s proportion of the salaries, expenses and other
allowances of the treasurers and commissioners of the revenue under tnis
article shall be paid out of the appropriations in the general appropriation
act for assessing property for taxation and collecting and distributing
records of assessments and for collecting State taxes and the State’s pro-
portion of the salaries, expenses and other allowances of the attorneys for
the Commonwealth shall be paid out of the appropriation in the general
appropriation act for criminal charges. *

The several salaries * fixed by the Compensation Board in accordance
with this and the preceding article (§ 14.1-48 et seq.) to be paid for * a
year * shall continue as so fixed for succeeding years at the same amounts ;
provided, however, that the Compensation Board may thereafter increase
or decrease the salary of any particular officer, within the limits fixed by
this article, when in its opinion, changed circumstances so require or when
so requested in writing * by council, board of supervisors or other gov-
erning body having jurisdiction, or by the officer whose compensation is
affected. Such request by the local governing body or by the officer affected
shall set forth in detail the facts and circumstances upon which such
request for a change is based.

1 provisions of charters of cities and towns inconsistent with the
provisions of this article are hereby repealed to the extent of such incon-
sistency.