CHAPTER 446

An Act to amend and reenact § 22-206, as amended, of the Code of
Virginia, relating to the employment by school boards of persons
related to members thereof or to division superintendents. rH 285)

Approved April 2, 1968

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 22-206, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended
and reenacted as follows:

§ 22-206. Teachers and employees not to be related to members
of school board or superintendent.—It shall not be lawful for the school
board of any county, city or of any town constituting a separate school
district to employ or pay any teacher or other school board employee
from the public funds, Federal, State or local, if such teacher or other
employee is the father, mother, brother, sister, wife, son, daughter, son-
in-law or daughter-in-law, sister-in-law or brother-in-law of the superin-
tendent, or of any member of the school board. *

This provision shall apply to any such person employed by any
school board in the operation of the public free school system, adult
education programs or any other program maintained and operated by
a local county, city or town school board.

This provision shall not apply to any person within such relationship
or relationships who has been regularly employed by any school board
prior to the taking of office of any member of such board or division
superintendent of schools, or who has been regularly employed by any
school board prior to the inception of such relationship or relationships.
If the school board violates these provisions, the individual members
thereof shall be personally liable to refund to the local treasury any
amounts paid in violation of this law, and such funds shall be recovered
from members by action or suit in the name of the Commonwealth * on the
petition of the attorney for the Commonwealth. Such funds, when recov-
ered, shall be paid into the local treasury for the use of the public schools.