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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>76227</law_id><section_number>15.2-1609.8</section_number><catch_line>Payments to counties having certain optional forms of organization and government</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>53.1-91</reference><reference>53.1-95</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="15.2">Counties, Cities and Towns</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Powers of Local Government</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="16">Local Constitutional Officers, Courthouses and Supplies</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="3">Sheriff</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The Compensation Board shall, in the manner provided by <span class="dictionary">law</span>, determine the compensation and expense allowances for the sheriff, and his deputies, of each <span class="dictionary">county</span> which has adopted or hereafter adopts any form of <span class="dictionary">county</span> organization and government provided for in Chapter 5 (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Title of form; applicability of chapter" href="/15.2-500/">15.2-500</a> et seq.), Chapter 6 (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Designation of form; applicability of chapter" href="/15.2-600/">15.2-600</a> et seq.) or Chapter 8 (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Designation of form of government; applicability of chapter" href="/15.2-800/">15.2-800</a> et seq.) of this title, so long as such <span class="dictionary">county</span> shall continue such form of <span class="dictionary">county</span> organization and government in effect in such <span class="dictionary">county</span>, as if such <span class="dictionary">county</span> had not adopted any such form of government, but the salaries and expense allowances shall be paid into the general fund of the treasury of such <span class="dictionary">county</span>. The actual compensation and expense allowance to be paid the sheriff, and his deputies, of any such <span class="dictionary">county</span> shall be fixed as provided in the form of <span class="dictionary">county</span> organization and government adopted by such <span class="dictionary">county</span>, without regard to the limits provided for in this article, and shall be paid by such <span class="dictionary">county</span>.
		The provisions of this section shall also be applicable to any <span class="dictionary">county</span> which adopts and has in effect in such <span class="dictionary">county</span> any other optional form of <span class="dictionary">county</span> organization and government which may be provided by <span class="dictionary">law</span>, if such form of <span class="dictionary">county</span> organization and government shall provide that the entire compensation of the sheriff of such <span class="dictionary">county</span> shall be fixed by authorities of the <span class="dictionary">county</span> and paid by the <span class="dictionary">county</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 14-93; 1964, c. 386, &#xA7; 14.1-82; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 236; 1979, c. 83; 1998, c. 872.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
