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Appointments shall be for terms of four years. No person shall be eligible to serve more than two successive terms, except that a person appointed to fill a vacancy may serve two additional successive four-year terms. The Board shall meet at the call of the Chairman, who shall be selected by the Board from among its membership, but no less than four times a year.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":234631,"text":"There is hereby continued an Advisory Board, hereinafter referred to as the Board, for the Department for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing.\n\t\tThe Board shall be composed of nine members appointed by the Governor as follows:\n\t\tFour representatives of deafness-oriented professions concerned with the health, education, rehabilitation, mental health and welfare of the deaf and hard-of-hearing; four citizens who are deaf or hard-of-hearing; and one member who is a parent of a child who is deaf or hard-of-hearing. Appointments shall be for terms of four years. No person shall be eligible to serve more than two successive terms, except that a person appointed to fill a vacancy may serve two additional successive four-year terms. 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This law was first created in 1984. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 670 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 1984 \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 2002, chapter 747<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":236639,"object_type":"law","relational_id":64476,"identifier":"51.5-106","token":"51.5\/13\/51.5-106","url":"\/51.5-106\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/51.5-106\/","token":"51.5\/13\/51.5-106","dublin_core":{"Title":"Board established; appointment, terms and qualifications of members; meetings; chairman","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 51.5-106","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

There is hereby continued an Advisory Board, hereinafter referred to as the Board, for the Department for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing<\/span>.\n\t\tThe Board shall be composed of nine members appointed by the Governor as follows:\n\t\tFour representatives of deafness-oriented professions concerned with the health, education, rehabilitation, mental health and welfare of the deaf and hard-of-hearing<\/span>; four citizens who are deaf or hard-of-hearing<\/span>; and one member who is a parent of a child who is deaf or hard-of-hearing<\/span>. Appointments shall be for terms of four years. No person shall be eligible to serve more than two successive terms, except that a person appointed to fill a vacancy may serve two additional successive four-year terms. The Board shall meet at the call of the Chairman, who shall be selected by the Board from among its membership, but no less than four times a year.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nBOARD ESTABLISHED; APPOINTMENT, TERMS AND QUALIFICATIONS OF MEMBERS; MEETINGS;\nCHAIRMAN (\u00a7 51.5-106)\n\nThere is hereby continued an Advisory Board, hereinafter referred to as the\nBoard, for the Department for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing.\n\t\tThe Board shall be composed of nine members appointed by the Governor as\nfollows:\n\t\tFour representatives of deafness-oriented professions concerned with the\nhealth, education, rehabilitation, mental health and welfare of the deaf and\nhard-of-hearing; four citizens who are deaf or hard-of-hearing; and one member\nwho is a parent of a child who is deaf or hard-of-hearing. Appointments shall be\nfor terms of four years. No person shall be eligible to serve more than two\nsuccessive terms, except that a person appointed to fill a vacancy may serve two\nadditional successive four-year terms. The Board shall meet at the call of the\nChairman, who shall be selected by the Board from among its membership, but no\nless than four times a year.\n\nHISTORY: 1984, c. 670, \u00a7 63.1-85.1:1; 2002, c. 747.","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}}