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2020 SESSION
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 15.2-1422 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 15.2-1422. Electing a chairman and vice-chairman or a mayor and vice-mayor.
Unless the chairman or mayor presiding officer
is elected by popular vote, every governing body, at its first meeting after
taking office, shall elect one of its number as presiding officer. Such officer
shall be called "chairman," "chairwoman,"
"chair," “chairperson,” or "chair-at-large,"
in the presiding officer's discretion, if a member of a board of
supervisors and "mayor" if a member of a city or town council. Such
member, if present, shall preside at the first meeting and all other meetings
during the term for which so elected. The governing body also shall elect a
vice-chairman or vice-mayor, as the case may be, who shall preside at meetings
in the absence of the chairman or mayor and may discharge any duty of the
chairman or mayor during his absence or disability. Chairmen and vice-chairmen,
and mayors and vice-mayors, may be so elected to serve for terms
corresponding with their terms as supervisors or councilmen or may be elected
for such other period as determined by the governing body. Whenever any board
or council at the time of such election, fails to designate the specific term
of office for which a chairman or vice-chairman, or a mayor or
vice-mayor, is elected, it shall be presumed that such officers were
elected for a term of one year and shall serve until their successors have been
elected and qualify. Chairmen and vice-chairmen, and mayors and
vice-mayors, may succeed themselves in office. In the case of the
absence from any meeting of the chairman and vice-chairman, or
mayor and vice-mayor, the members present shall choose one of their number as
temporary presiding officer.