15.2-821 - Board to provide for and set up departments; removal of department head or person assigned to county executive's office; powers of supervisors generally. - Virginia Statutes

§ 15.2-821. Board to provide for and set up departments; removal ofdepartment head or person assigned to county executive's office; powers ofsupervisors generally.

The board shall, as soon as its members are elected and take office, providefor the performance of all the governmental functions of the county and tothat end shall provide for and set up all necessary departments of governmentconsistent with the provisions of this chapter. Any deputy county executive,assistant county executive, or department head may be removed at the pleasureof the board, except as the board may authorize the urban county executive toremove such employees, and such removal shall not be subject to review by anyother county employee, agency, board or commission or under the grievanceprocedure adopted pursuant to § 15.2-1506. The board shall have all authorityand powers provided for by this chapter or by other law and shall have thepower to raise annually by taxes and assessments on property, persons andother subjects of taxation, which are not prohibited by law, such sums ofmoney as in the judgment of the board are necessary to pay the debts, defraythe expenses, accomplish the purposes and perform the functions of the county.

However, any department head who could grieve his own removal from an officeheld prior to July 1, 1987, under the law in effect at the time he wasappointed to office, shall retain such right to grieve his own removal fromthat office unless that right is waived in writing in consideration of apayment mutually agreed to by that department head and by the board.

(Code 1950, § 15-384.50; 1960, c. 382; 1962, c. 623, § 15.1-763; 1966, c.464; 1968, c. 797; 1987, c. 419; 1997, c. 587.)