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Members of the Board may be suspended or removed by the Governor at his pleasure and the unexpired term of any member shall lapse upon his failure for any reason to attend four consecutive regular meetings of the Board. The initial appointments of members for terms of less than five years shall be deemed appointments to fill vacancies. No person shall be eligible to serve for or during more than two successive terms; however, any person appointed to fill a vacancy may be eligible for two additional successive terms after the term of the vacancy for which he was appointed has expired. The members of the Board shall receive no salaries.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":310370,"text":"The members of the Board shall be appointed for terms of five years each, except that the initial appointments to the Board shall be for such terms of less than five years as may be necessary to stagger the expiration of terms so that the terms of not more than seven members expire in any one year. 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This law was first created in 1988. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapters 707 and 891 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 1988 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 1 time. 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. That modification is as follows: in 2001, chapter 163<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":146725,"object_type":"law","relational_id":86666,"identifier":"10.1-2003","token":"10.1\/II\/20\/10.1-2003","url":"\/10.1-2003\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/10.1-2003\/","token":"10.1\/II\/20\/10.1-2003","dublin_core":{"Title":"Terms of members; vacancies","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 10.1-2003","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

The members of the Board shall be appointed for terms of five years each, except that the initial appointments to the Board shall be for such terms of less than five years as may be necessary to stagger the expiration of terms so that the terms of not more than seven members expire in any one year. Members of the Board may be suspended or removed by the Governor at his pleasure and the unexpired term of any member shall lapse upon his failure for any reason to attend four consecutive regular meetings of the Board. The initial appointments of members for terms of less than five years shall be deemed appointments to fill vacancies. No person shall be eligible to serve for or during more than two successive terms; however, any person appointed to fill a vacancy may be eligible for two additional successive terms after the term of the vacancy for which he was appointed has expired. The members of the Board shall receive no salaries.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nTERMS OF MEMBERS; VACANCIES (\u00a7 10.1-2003)\n\nThe members of the Board shall be appointed for terms of five years each, except\nthat the initial appointments to the Board shall be for such terms of less than\nfive years as may be necessary to stagger the expiration of terms so that the\nterms of not more than seven members expire in any one year. Members of the\nBoard may be suspended or removed by the Governor at his pleasure and the\nunexpired term of any member shall lapse upon his failure for any reason to\nattend four consecutive regular meetings of the Board. The initial appointments\nof members for terms of less than five years shall be deemed appointments to\nfill vacancies. No person shall be eligible to serve for or during more than two\nsuccessive terms; however, any person appointed to fill a vacancy may be\neligible for two additional successive terms after the term of the vacancy for\nwhich he was appointed has expired. The members of the Board shall receive no\nsalaries.\n\nHISTORY: 1988, cc. 707, 891; 2001, c. 163.","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}}