15.2-1505 - Employment based on residency prohibited for certain employees. - Virginia Statutes

§ 15.2-1505. Employment based on residency prohibited for certain employees.

Notwithstanding any contrary provision of general or special law, nolocality, or any agency thereof, including school boards, or any localhousing or redevelopment authority created pursuant to § 36-4, that receivesany funds from the Commonwealth, shall condition employment or any feature ofemployment, including promotion, on the basis of residency in a particularlocality.

This section shall not apply to (i) appointees of elected groups orindividuals, (ii) officials and employees who by charter or other law serveat the will or pleasure of an appointing authority, (iii) deputies andexecutive assistants to the chief administrative officer of a locality, or(iv) agency heads, department heads or their equivalents or chief executiveofficers of government operations.

(1993, c. 789, § 15.1-29.23; 1997, c. 587; 1999, c. 375; 2000, c. 276; 2002,c. 37.)