22.1-83 - Payment of employee's legal fees and expenses. - Virginia Statutes

§ 22.1-83. Payment of employee's legal fees and expenses.

If an employee of a school board is arrested, indicted or otherwiseprosecuted on any charge arising out of any act committed in the discharge ofhis duties as such employee and such charge is subsequently dismissed or averdict of not guilty is rendered or if an employee of a school board is madea defendant in any civil action arising out of his actions in connection withhis duties as such employee, the school board may pay the legal fees andexpenses of such employee.

(Code 1950, § 22-56.1:1; 1978, c. 135; 1980, c. 559.)