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CHAPTER 501 An Act to amend and reenact § 51.5-31 of the Code of Virginia, relating to Virginia Board for People with Disabilities. [H 1987] Approved March 16, 2003

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 51.5-31 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 51.5-31. Board created.

There shall be a Virginia Board for People with Disabilities, responsible to the Secretary of Health and Human Resources. The Board shall be composed of forty 40 members, to include the head or a person designated by the head of the Department for the Aging, Department for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing, Department of Education, Department of Medical Assistance Services, Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services, Department of Rehabilitative Services, and the Department for the Blind and Vision Impaired; one representative of the protection and advocacy agency; one representative of the university-affiliated facility; one representative each, to be appointed by the Governor, of a local governmental agency, a manufacturing or a retailing industry, of a high-technology industry, of a public transit interest, of and a nongovernmental agency or group concerned with of agencies that provide services for persons with developmental disabilities,; a banking executive,; one person with disabilities other than developmental disabilities,; and twenty-four 24 persons with developmental disabilities or the parents or guardians of such persons. Of the last twenty-four 24 persons, at least eight shall be persons with developmental disabilities; at least eight shall be immediate relatives or guardians of persons with mentally impairing developmental disabilities; and at least one person shall be an immediate relative or guardian of an institutionalized person with a developmental disability.

Each member appointed by the Governor shall be appointed for a four-year term, except that of the members appointed in 1989, eight shall be appointed for a term of four years, eight shall be appointed for a term of three years, eight shall be appointed for a term of two years, and seven shall be appointed for a term of one year. Members so appointed shall be subject to removal at the pleasure of the Governor. Any vacancy other than by expiration of a term shall be filled for the unexpired term. No person appointed by the Governor shall serve for more than two successive terms.

The Board shall elect its chairman.