GOVERNOR'S RECOMMENDATION

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d. That, notwithstanding any contrary provisions of subdivision 8 b, in the event of the consolidation of a city having a population of between 5,400 and 6,400 and a county having a population of between 44,700 and 45,700 according to the 1990 United States Census, where such consolidating jurisdictions share the offices of the attorney for the Commonwealth, clerk of the circuit court, and sheriff, and which jurisdictions are consolidating into a single city containing a political subdivision to be known as a "shire" or a "borough," or by such other name as may be established in the consolidation plan, and as provided for in subdivision 20, the attorney for the Commonwealth, clerk, and sheriff in office upon the effective date of the consolidation shall continue in their offices as the respective officers for the consolidated city, and their terms shall be extended beyond the date of expiration of the full terms for which such officers were elected until January 1 after the next regularly scheduled election for such offices in cities under § 24.2-217. The term "political subdivision" as used in this paragraph and in subdivision 20 shall include a governmental subdivision. In the event of the consolidation, the offices of the commissioners of the revenue and of the treasurers of the consolidating jurisdictions shall be consolidated on the effective date of consolidation; the commissioner of the revenue and the treasurer of the consolidating county shall continue in office as the commissioner of the revenue and treasurer, respectively, of the consolidated city; and their terms shall be extended beyond the date of expiration of the full terms for which such officers were elected until January 1 after the next regularly scheduled election for such officers in cities under § 24.2-217. The commissioner of the revenue and the treasurer of the former city shall continue in office as the consolidated city's chief deputies for the shire or borough, or political subdivision that has such other name as may be established in the consolidation plan, during the extended terms of the consolidated city's commissioner of the revenue and treasurer at not less than their salaries in effect at the effective date of consolidation. On a transitional basis during their terms in office, they shall perform such duties in respect to the residents of the shire or borough, or political subdivision that has such other name as may be established in the consolidation plan, as are delegated by their principal constitutional officers of the consolidated city. They may also perform such additional duties as they had performed prior to consolidation. The respective positions of chief deputies for the shire or borough or political subdivision that has such other name as may be established in the consolidation plan shall be abolished at the expiration of such extended terms or in the event of a vacancy in either office during such extended terms.