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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>84146</law_id><section_number>15.2-532</section_number><catch_line>Terms of school boards</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>15.2-533</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="I">General Provisions; Charters; Other Forms and Organization of Counties</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="5">County Executive Form of Government</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="3">Departments; County Executive Form</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The members of the <span class="dictionary">county</span> school board shall be appointed or reappointed, as the case may be, for terms of four years each, except that initial appointments hereunder may be for terms of one to four years, respectively, so as to provide staggered terms for such members.
		Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section, the terms of office of the school board members in a <span class="dictionary">county</span> which is contiguous to a <span class="dictionary">county</span> having the urban <span class="dictionary">county</span> executive form of government shall begin on July 1 of the year in which the <span class="dictionary">board of supervisors</span> takes office following the next general election for supervisors. However, all other applicable provisions of Titles 22.1 and 15.2 pertaining to the powers and duties of school boards and their appointments shall continue to apply to the members of such school board.</p></section></text><history>1966, c. 624, &#xA7; 15.1-609.1; 1980, c. 559; 1986, c. 626; 1997, c. 587.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
