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The Board shall have a total membership of 20 members that shall consist of 18 citizen members and two ex officio voting members as follows: four citizen members, who may be members of the House of Delegates, to be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Delegates and, if such members are members of the House of Delegates, in accordance with the principles of proportional representation contained in the Rules of the House of Delegates; two citizen members, who may be members of the Senate, to be appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules; 12 nonlegislative citizen members, one from each of the 11 congressional districts and one member of a state-recognized or federally recognized Virginia Indian Tribe, to be appointed by the Governor; and the Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources, or his designee, and the Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry, or his designee, to serve ex officio with voting privileges. Nonlegislative citizen members shall be appointed for four-year terms, except that initial appointments shall be made for terms of one to four years in a manner whereby no more than six members shall have terms that expire in the same year. Legislative members and the ex officio member shall serve terms coincident with their terms of office. Appointments to fill vacancies, other than by expiration of a term, shall be made for the unexpired terms. Vacancies shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointments. All members may be reappointed. However, no Senate member shall serve more than two consecutive four-year terms, no House member shall serve more than four consecutive two-year terms, and no nonlegislative citizen member shall serve more than two consecutive four-year terms. The remainder of any term to which a member is appointed to fill a vacancy shall not constitute a term in determining the member’s eligibility for reappointment. Nonlegislative citizen members shall have experience or expertise, professional or personal, in one or more of the following areas: natural resource protection and conservation, construction and real estate development, natural habitat protection, environmental resource inventory and identification, forestry management, farming, farmland preservation, fish and wildlife management, historic preservation, and outdoor recreation. At least one of the nonlegislative citizen members shall be a farmer. Members of the Board shall post bond in the penalty of $5,000 with the State Comptroller prior to entering upon the functions of office.B\n\nThe Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources shall serve as the chairman of the Board. The chairman shall serve until his successor is appointed. The members appointed as provided in subsection A shall elect a vice-chairman annually from among the members of the Board. A majority of the members of the Board serving at any one time shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. The Board shall meet at the call of the chairman or whenever a majority of the members so request.C\n\nTrustees of the Foundation shall receive no compensation for their services. All members shall be reimbursed for all reasonable and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties on behalf of the Foundation as provided in §§ 2.2-2813 and 2.2-2825. Funding for the costs of expenses of the members shall be provided by the Department of Conservation and Recreation.D\n\nThe chairman of the Board and any other person designated by the Board to handle the funds of the Foundation shall give bond, with corporate surety, in such penalty as is fixed by the Governor, conditioned upon the faithful discharge of his duties. The premium on the bonds shall be paid from funds available to the Foundation for such purpose.E\n\nThe Board shall seek assistance in developing grant criteria and advice on grant priorities and any other appropriate issues from a task force consisting of the following agency heads or their designees: the Director of the Department of Conservation and Recreation, the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services, the State Forester, the Director of the Department of Historic Resources, the Director of the Department of Wildlife Resources and the Executive Director of the Virginia Outdoors Foundation. The Board may request any other agency head to serve on or appoint a designee to serve on the task force.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":257927,"text":"The Foundation shall be governed and administered by a Board of Trustees (the Board). The Board shall have a total membership of 20 members that shall consist of 18 citizen members and two ex officio voting members as follows: four citizen members, who may be members of the House of Delegates, to be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Delegates and, if such members are members of the House of Delegates, in accordance with the principles of proportional representation contained in the Rules of the House of Delegates; two citizen members, who may be members of the Senate, to be appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules; 12 nonlegislative citizen members, one from each of the 11 congressional districts and one member of a state-recognized or federally recognized Virginia Indian Tribe, to be appointed by the Governor; and the Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources, or his designee, and the Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry, or his designee, to serve ex officio with voting privileges. Nonlegislative citizen members shall be appointed for four-year terms, except that initial appointments shall be made for terms of one to four years in a manner whereby no more than six members shall have terms that expire in the same year. Legislative members and the ex officio member shall serve terms coincident with their terms of office. Appointments to fill vacancies, other than by expiration of a term, shall be made for the unexpired terms. Vacancies shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointments. All members may be reappointed. However, no Senate member shall serve more than two consecutive four-year terms, no House member shall serve more than four consecutive two-year terms, and no nonlegislative citizen member shall serve more than two consecutive four-year terms. The remainder of any term to which a member is appointed to fill a vacancy shall not constitute a term in determining the member’s eligibility for reappointment. Nonlegislative citizen members shall have experience or expertise, professional or personal, in one or more of the following areas: natural resource protection and conservation, construction and real estate development, natural habitat protection, environmental resource inventory and identification, forestry management, farming, farmland preservation, fish and wildlife management, historic preservation, and outdoor recreation. At least one of the nonlegislative citizen members shall be a farmer. Members of the Board shall post bond in the penalty of $5,000 with the State Comptroller prior to entering upon the functions of office.","type":"section","prefixes":["A"],"prefix":"A","entire_prefix":"A","prefix_anchor":"A","level":1,"next_prefix":"B"},"1":{"id":257928,"text":"The Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources shall serve as the chairman of the Board. The chairman shall serve until his successor is appointed. The members appointed as provided in subsection A shall elect a vice-chairman annually from among the members of the Board. A majority of the members of the Board serving at any one time shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. The Board shall meet at the call of the chairman or whenever a majority of the members so request.","type":"section","prefixes":["B"],"prefix":"B","entire_prefix":"B","prefix_anchor":"B","level":1,"prior_prefix":"A","next_prefix":"C"},"2":{"id":257929,"text":"Trustees of the Foundation shall receive no compensation for their services. All members shall be reimbursed for all reasonable and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties on behalf of the Foundation as provided in §§ 2.2-2813 and 2.2-2825. Funding for the costs of expenses of the members shall be provided by the Department of Conservation and Recreation.","type":"section","prefixes":["C"],"prefix":"C","entire_prefix":"C","prefix_anchor":"C","level":1,"prior_prefix":"B","next_prefix":"D"},"3":{"id":257930,"text":"The chairman of the Board and any other person designated by the Board to handle the funds of the Foundation shall give bond, with corporate surety, in such penalty as is fixed by the Governor, conditioned upon the faithful discharge of his duties. The premium on the bonds shall be paid from funds available to the Foundation for such purpose.","type":"section","prefixes":["D"],"prefix":"D","entire_prefix":"D","prefix_anchor":"D","level":1,"prior_prefix":"C","next_prefix":"E"},"4":{"id":257931,"text":"The Board shall seek assistance in developing grant criteria and advice on grant priorities and any other appropriate issues from a task force consisting of the following agency heads or their designees: the Director of the Department of Conservation and Recreation, the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services, the State Forester, the Director of the Department of Historic Resources, the Director of the Department of Wildlife Resources and the Executive Director of the Virginia Outdoors Foundation. 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This law was first created in 1992. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 426 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1992 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 8 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 1999, chapters 900<\/a> and 906<\/a>; in 2000, chapters 21<\/a>, 294<\/a>, 494<\/a>, and 1053<\/a>; in 2003, chapter 885<\/a>; in 2005, chapters 633<\/a> and 758<\/a>; in 2006, chapter 45<\/a>; in 2020, chapter 958<\/a>; in 2022, chapter 705<\/a>; in 2023, chapter 222<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":[{"id":71377,"section_number":"2.2-2813","catch_line":"Definitions; compensation and expense payments from state funds for service on collegial bodies","order_by":null,"url":"\/2.2-2813\/"},{"id":73173,"section_number":"2.2-2825","catch_line":"Reimbursement for certain travel expenditures; restrictions on reimbursement","order_by":null,"url":"\/2.2-2825\/"}],"permalink":{"id":143555,"object_type":"law","relational_id":71549,"identifier":"10.1-1018","token":"10.1\/I\/10.2\/10.1-1018","url":"\/10.1-1018\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/10.1-1018\/","token":"10.1\/I\/10.2\/10.1-1018","dublin_core":{"Title":"Virginia Land Conservation Board of Trustees; membership; terms; vacancies; compensation and expenses","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 10.1-1018","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

A.<\/span> The Foundation shall be governed and administered by a Board of Trustees (the Board). The Board shall have a total membership of 20 members that shall consist of 18 citizen members and two ex officio voting members as follows: four citizen members, who may be members of the House of Delegates, to be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Delegates and, if such members are members of the House of Delegates, in accordance with the principles of proportional representation contained in the Rules of the House of Delegates; two citizen members, who may be members of the Senate, to be appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules; 12 nonlegislative citizen members, one from each of the 11 congressional districts and one member of a state-recognized or federally recognized Virginia Indian Tribe, to be appointed by the Governor; and the Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources, or his designee, and the Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry, or his designee, to serve ex officio with voting privileges<\/span>. Nonlegislative citizen members shall be appointed for four-year terms, except that initial appointments shall be made for terms of one to four years in a manner whereby no more than six members shall have terms that expire in the same year. Legislative members and the ex officio member shall serve terms coincident with their terms of office. Appointments to fill vacancies, other than by expiration of a term, shall be made for the unexpired terms. Vacancies shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointments. All members may be reappointed. However, no Senate member shall serve more than two consecutive four-year terms, no House member shall serve more than four consecutive two-year terms, and no nonlegislative citizen member shall serve more than two consecutive four-year terms. The remainder of any term to which a member is appointed to fill a vacancy shall not constitute a term in determining the member’s eligibility for reappointment. Nonlegislative citizen members shall have experience or expertise, professional or personal, in one or more of the following areas: natural resource protection and conservation, construction and real estate development, natural habitat protection, environmental resource inventory and identification, forestry management, farming, farmland preservation, fish and wildlife management, historic preservation, and outdoor recreation. At least one of the nonlegislative citizen members shall be a farmer. Members of the Board shall post bond<\/span> in the penalty<\/span> of $5,000 with the State Comptroller prior to entering upon the functions of office. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

B.<\/span> The Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources shall serve as the chairman of the Board. The chairman shall serve until his successor is appointed. The members appointed as provided in subsection A shall elect a vice-chairman annually from among the members of the Board. A majority of the members of the Board serving at any one time shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. The Board shall meet at the call of the chairman or whenever a majority of the members so request. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

C.<\/span> Trustees of the Foundation shall receive no compensation for their services. All members shall be reimbursed for all reasonable and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties on behalf of the Foundation as provided in §§ 2.2-2813<\/a> and 2.2-2825<\/a>. Funding for the costs of expenses of the members shall be provided by the Department<\/span> of Conservation and Recreation. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

D.<\/span> The chairman of the Board and any other person designated by the Board to handle the funds of the Foundation shall give bond<\/span>, with corporate surety<\/span>, in such penalty<\/span> as is fixed by the Governor, conditioned upon the faithful discharge of his duties. The premium on the bonds<\/span> shall be paid from funds available to the Foundation for such purpose. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

E.<\/span> The Board shall seek assistance in developing grant criteria and advice on grant priorities and any other appropriate issues<\/span> from a task force consisting of the following agency heads or their designees: the Director<\/span> of the Department<\/span> of Conservation and Recreation, the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services, the State Forester, the Director<\/span> of the Department<\/span> of Historic Resources, the Director<\/span> of the Department<\/span> of Wildlife Resources and the Executive Director<\/span> of the Virginia Outdoors Foundation. The Board may request any other agency head to serve on or appoint a designee to serve on the task force. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nVIRGINIA LAND CONSERVATION BOARD OF TRUSTEES; MEMBERSHIP; TERMS; VACANCIES;\nCOMPENSATION AND EXPENSES (\u00a7 10.1-1018)\n\nA. The Foundation shall be governed and administered by a Board of Trustees (the\nBoard). The Board shall have a total membership of 20 members that shall consist\nof 18 citizen members and two ex officio voting members as follows: four citizen\nmembers, who may be members of the House of Delegates, to be appointed by the\nSpeaker of the House of Delegates and, if such members are members of the House\nof Delegates, in accordance with the principles of proportional representation\ncontained in the Rules of the House of Delegates; two citizen members, who may\nbe members of the Senate, to be appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules; 12\nnonlegislative citizen members, one from each of the 11 congressional districts\nand one member of a state-recognized or federally recognized Virginia Indian\nTribe, to be appointed by the Governor; and the Secretary of Natural and\nHistoric Resources, or his designee, and the Secretary of Agriculture and\nForestry, or his designee, to serve ex officio with voting privileges.\nNonlegislative citizen members shall be appointed for four-year terms, except\nthat initial appointments shall be made for terms of one to four years in a\nmanner whereby no more than six members shall have terms that expire in the same\nyear. Legislative members and the ex officio member shall serve terms coincident\nwith their terms of office. Appointments to fill vacancies, other than by\nexpiration of a term, shall be made for the unexpired terms. Vacancies shall be\nfilled in the same manner as the original appointments. All members may be\nreappointed. However, no Senate member shall serve more than two consecutive\nfour-year terms, no House member shall serve more than four consecutive two-year\nterms, and no nonlegislative citizen member shall serve more than two\nconsecutive four-year terms. The remainder of any term to which a member is\nappointed to fill a vacancy shall not constitute a term in determining the\nmember’s eligibility for reappointment. Nonlegislative citizen members\nshall have experience or expertise, professional or personal, in one or more of\nthe following areas: natural resource protection and conservation, construction\nand real estate development, natural habitat protection, environmental resource\ninventory and identification, forestry management, farming, farmland\npreservation, fish and wildlife management, historic preservation, and outdoor\nrecreation. At least one of the nonlegislative citizen members shall be a\nfarmer. Members of the Board shall post bond in the penalty of $5,000 with the\nState Comptroller prior to entering upon the functions of office.\n\nB. The Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources shall serve as the chairman\nof the Board. The chairman shall serve until his successor is appointed. The\nmembers appointed as provided in subsection A shall elect a vice-chairman\nannually from among the members of the Board. A majority of the members of the\nBoard serving at any one time shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of\nbusiness. The Board shall meet at the call of the chairman or whenever a\nmajority of the members so request.\n\nC. Trustees of the Foundation shall receive no compensation for their services.\nAll members shall be reimbursed for all reasonable and necessary expenses\nincurred in the performance of their duties on behalf of the Foundation as\nprovided in §§ 2.2-2813 and 2.2-2825. Funding for the costs of\nexpenses of the members shall be provided by the Department of Conservation and\nRecreation.\n\nD. The chairman of the Board and any other person designated by the Board to\nhandle the funds of the Foundation shall give bond, with corporate surety, in\nsuch penalty as is fixed by the Governor, conditioned upon the faithful\ndischarge of his duties. The premium on the bonds shall be paid from funds\navailable to the Foundation for such purpose.\n\nE. The Board shall seek assistance in developing grant criteria and advice on\ngrant priorities and any other appropriate issues from a task force consisting\nof the following agency heads or their designees: the Director of the Department\nof Conservation and Recreation, the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer\nServices, the State Forester, the Director of the Department of Historic\nResources, the Director of the Department of Wildlife Resources and the\nExecutive Director of the Virginia Outdoors Foundation. The Board may request\nany other agency head to serve on or appoint a designee to serve on the task\nforce.\n\nHISTORY: 1992, c. 426; 1999, cc. 900, 906; 2000, cc. 21, 294, 494, 1053; 2003,\nc. 885; 2005, cc. 633, 758; 2006, c. 45; 2020, c. 958; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c.\n401; 2022, c. 705; 2023, c. 222.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}