22.1-30 - Certain officers may not act on school board or serve as tie breaker. - Virginia Statutes

§ 22.1-30. Certain officers may not act on school board or serve as tiebreaker.

A. No state, county, city or town officer, no deputy of any such officer, nomember of the governing body of a county, city or town, no employee of aschool board, and no father, mother, brother, sister, spouse, son, daughter,son-in-law, daughter-in-law, sister-in-law or brother-in-law of a member ofthe county governing body may, during his term of office, be appointed as amember of the school board for such county, city or town or as tie breakerfor such school board except:

1. Local directors of social services;

2. Commissioners in chancery;

3. Commissioners of accounts;

4. Registrars of vital records and health statistics;

5. Notaries public;

6. Clerks and employees of the federal government in the District of Columbia;

7. Medical examiners;

8. Officers and employees of the District of Columbia;

9. In Northumberland County, oyster inspectors;

10. In Lunenburg County, members of the county library board and members ofthe local board of social services;

11. Auxiliary deputy sheriffs and auxiliary police officers receiving lessthan five dollars in annual compensation;

12. Members of the town councils serving towns within Craig, Giles and WiseCounties; and

13. Public defenders.

B. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the election ofdeputies of constitutional officers to school board membership, consistentwith federal law and regulation.

(Code 1950, §§ 22-69, 22-92; 1973, c. 63; 1980, c. 559; 1986, c. 260; 1990,c. 111; 1991, cc. 140, 163; 1993, c. 352; 1994, c. 723; 1995, c. 290; 2002,c. 747.)