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1996 SESSION


CHAPTER 312
An Act to amend and reenact § 16.05 of Chapter 147 of the Acts of Assembly of 1962, which provided a charter for the City of Virginia Beach, relating to school boards.
[H 205]
Approved March 22, 1996

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 16.05 of Chapter 147 of the Acts of Assembly of 1962 is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 16.05. Filling vacancies on school board.

When a vacancy occurs in the office of an elected school board member, the vacancy shall be filled pursuant to § 24.1-76 of the Code of Virginia in the same manner in which general law provides for the filling of vacancies of city council members pursuant to §§ 24.2-226 and 24.2-228 with the interim appointment to be made by a majority vote of the remaining members of the board. If the vacancy is that of a school board member elected from a borough, the vacancy shall be filled by a qualified voter residing in the same borough.