CHAPTER 686

An Act to amend and reenact § 15.1-63 of the Code of Virginia, relating to
power of certain courts of record to remove certain officers for certain

causes.
[H 8387]
Approved April 5, 1968

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
tn That § 15.1-638 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as

ollows:

§ 15.1-638. Power of removal; grounds.—The circuit courts of coun-
ties and of cities having no corporation court and the corporation courts
of cities may remove from office all State, county, city, town and district
officers elected or appointed, except such officers as are by the Constitution
removable only and exclusively by methods other than those provided by
this and the following section (§ 15.1-64), for malfeasance, misfeasance,
incompetency or gross neglect of official duty, or who shall knowingly or
willfully neglect to perform any duty enjoined upon such officer by any law
of this State, or who shall in any public place be in a state of intoxication
produced by ardent spirits voluntarily taken, or who shall have been con-
victed of engaging in any form of gambling or of any act constituting a
violation of any penal statute involving moral turpitude, 07 who its con-
victed of failing to make a public disclosure of interests in violation of
Article 4 of Chapter 2 of this Title.

The power to remove the clerk of a court shall be vested only in the
court of which he is clerk.

Nothing in this section shall be construed to interfere with any power
vested in the mayor of any city by section one hundred twenty of the
Constitution of the State or to repeal any provision of the charter of any
city or town or any ordinance in pursuance of such charter for the removal
of any of the officers of such city or town.