63.2-301 - Local board appointments and terms of office. - Virginia Statutes

§ 63.2-301. Local board appointments and terms of office.

The members of each local board first appointed shall be appointed initiallyfor terms of from one to four years so as to provide for the balancedoverlapping of the terms of the membership thereon and the members of a localboard representing more than one county or city shall be appointed initiallyfor such terms, of not less than one nor more than four years, as may bedetermined by the governing bodies of their respective counties or cities.Subsequent appointments shall be for a term of four years each, except thatappointments to fill vacancies that occur during terms shall be for theremainder of those unexpired terms. Appointments to fill unexpired termsshall not be considered full terms, and such persons shall be eligible to beappointed to two consecutive full terms. No person may serve more than twoconsecutive full terms; however, this section shall not apply where a localgovernment official is constituted to be the local board. A member of a localboard who serves two consecutive full terms shall be ineligible forreappointment to such local board until the end of an intervening two-yearperiod dating from the expiration of the last of the two consecutive terms.

(Code 1950, § 63-56; 1952, c. 409; 1956, c. 126; 1968, cc. 467, 578, §63.1-39; 1974, c. 120; 1975, c. 300; 1980, c. 377; 2002, c. 747; 2005, c. 16.)