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1994 SESSION


CHAPTER 91
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 6.2 as amended and 6.3 of Chapter 325 of the Acts of Assembly of 1952, which provided a charter for the City of Buena Vista and to repeal §§ 6.1, 6.201, 6.202 as amended, and 6.203 of Chapter 325 of the Acts of Assembly of 1952, relating to the City's schools and its school board.
[H 4]
Approved March 16, 1994

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 6.2 as amended and 6.3 of Chapter 325 of the Acts of Assembly of 1952 are amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 6.2. Members of school board: Election or Appointment of School Board Members, Terms of Members and Expiration of Present Terms.

The city council shall appoint a seven member school board consisting of three members from each school district and one member appointed from the city at large in a manner prescribed by the laws of the Commonwealth. The member appointed from the city at large shall take his office on July one, nineteen hundred seventy-three.

The school board shall consist of seven members who shall be elected from the city at large.

In compliance with a November 2, 1992, referendum, members of the school board shall be elected or appointed in the manner as hereinafter set forth.

The terms of the five members of the present school board which are now scheduled to expire on June 30, 1994, and June 30, 1995, shall all expire on June 30, 1994. The remaining two members of the present school board whose terms expire on June 30, 1996, shall remain in office until June 30, 1996. The other five members whose terms will expire on June 30, 1994, shall be replaced in a manner as hereinafter set forth.

The present term of the at-large member expires on June 30, 1994. At that time the city council shall appoint an at-large member to serve on the school board for a term expiring on June 30, 1996.

At the regular municipal election to be held on the first Tuesday in May 1994, and every four years thereafter, four school board members shall be elected for a term of four years beginning on the first day of July next following their election.

At the regular municipal election to be held on the first Tuesday in May 1996, and every four years thereafter, three school board members shall be elected for a term of four years beginning on the first day of July next following their election.

§ 6.3. General Provisions.

The establishment, maintenance, and operation of a system of free public schools within the city of Buena Vista shall be under the control of the school board, appointed by the city council or elected in accordance with the provisions of this charter, the Constitution of Virginia, the laws of the Commonwealth, and the regulations of the state board of education; and said board shall have all the rights, privileges, powers, and duties granted or empowered by the said provisions, Constitution, laws, and regulations; and nothing in this charter shall negate any rights, privileges, powers, or duties granted or empowered to the school board by said provisions, Constitution, laws, and regulations; and neither shall the school board have any such rights, privileges, powers, and duties not provided by said provisions, Constitution, laws and regulations.

2. That §§ 6.1, 6.201, 6.202 as amended, and 6.203 of Chapter 325 of the Acts of Assembly of 1952 are repealed.

3. That an emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.