Bill Text: VA HB58 | 2012 | Regular Session | Prefiled
Bill Title: Urban county executive form; filling vacancy on board of supervisors.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2012-03-30 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0396) [HB58 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2012-HB58-Prefiled.html
12101217D Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia: 1. That §15.2-802 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows: §15.2-802. Powers of county vested in board of supervisors; membership, election, terms, etc., of board; vacancies; powers of chairman. The powers of the county as a body politic and corporate shall be vested in an urban county board of supervisors, to consist of one member from each district of such county and to be known as the board of supervisors ("the board"). Each member shall be a qualified voter of his district and shall be elected by the qualified voters thereof. In addition to the above board members, the voters shall elect a county chairman who shall be a qualified voter of the county. No person may be a candidate for county chairman at the same time he is a candidate for membership on the county board from any district of the county. A quorum shall consist of a majority of the board and the chairman shall be included and counted. The county chairman shall be the chairman of the board and
preside at the meetings thereof. The chairman shall represent the county at
official functions and ceremonial events. The chairman shall have all rights,
privileges, and duties of other members of the board and such others, not in conflict
with this article, as the board may prescribe. In addition, the chairman shall
have the power to (i) call special meetings of the board in accordance with the
procedures and restrictions of §15.2-1418, mutatis mutandis; (ii) set the
agenda for board meetings; however, any such agenda may be modified by an
affirmative vote of the board; (iii) appoint county representatives to regional
boards, authorities and commissions which are authorized in advance by the
board; however, any such appointment shall be subject to revocation by an
affirmative vote of a majority of all members elected to the board acting
within the At the first meeting at the beginning of its term and any time thereafter when necessary, the board shall elect a vice-chairman from its membership who shall perform the duties of the chairman in his absence. The supervisors and chairman first elected under the provisions of this chapter shall hold office until January 1 following the next regular election provided by general law for the election of supervisors. At such election their successors shall be elected for terms of four years each. If the number of districts in any such county is increased by
redistricting or otherwise subsequent to a general election for supervisors,
and such supervisors have taken office, then the board shall adopt a resolution
requesting a judge of the circuit court for such county to call a special
election for an additional supervisor or supervisors in accordance with the
increase in the number of districts, such additional supervisor or supervisors
to be elected from the county at large, and such election shall be held within If a vacancy occurs on the board, the chief judge of the
circuit court for such county shall call a special election, in the district if
the vacancy is of a district supervisor, or in the county at large if the
vacancy is of the chairman, to be held not fewer than |