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1999 SESSION

993744368
HOUSE BILL NO. 2201
Offered January 20, 1999
A BILL to amend and reenact § 22.1-30 of the Code of Virginia, relating to officers prohibited from serving on a school board.
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Patron-- Moss
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Referred to Committee on Education
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 22.1-30 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 22.1-30. Certain officers may not act on school board or serve as tie breaker.

A. No state, county, city or town officer, no deputy of any such officer, no member of the governing body of a county, city or town, no employee of a school board, and no father, mother, brother, sister, spouse, son, daughter, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, sister-in-law or brother-in-law of a member of the county governing body may, during his term of office, be appointed serve as a member of the school board for such county, city or town or as tie breaker for such school board except:

1. local Local superintendents of public welfare,

2. commissioners Commissioners in chancery,

3. commissioners Commissioners of accounts,

4. registrars Registrars of vital records and health statistics,

5. notaries Notaries public,

6. clerks Clerks and employees of the federal government in the District of Columbia,

7. medical Medical examiners,

8. officers Officers and employees of the District of Columbia,

9. in In Northumberland County, oyster inspectors,

10. in In Lunenburg County, members of the county library board and members of the board of public welfare,

11. auxiliary Auxiliary deputy sheriffs and auxiliary police officers receiving less than five dollars in annual compensation,

12. members Members of the town councils serving towns within Craig, Giles and Wise Counties, and

13. public Public defenders, and

14. In a city having a population of more than 250,000 but less than 350,000, members of the Board of Review of Real Estate Assessments.

B. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the election of deputies of constitutional officers to school board membership, consistent with federal law and regulation.