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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>79639</law_id><section_number>15.2-704</section_number><catch_line>Appointment of clerk of board; powers and duties; obligations and penalties</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><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="7">County Manager Plan of Government</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="2">General Powers; County Manager Plan</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The clerk of the board shall be such qualified person as the board designates. He shall be compensated in an amount set by the board and may employ such deputies and assistants as the board authorizes. He shall exercise the powers conferred and perform the duties imposed upon such officers by general <span class="dictionary">law</span> and shall be subject to the obligations and penalties imposed by general <span class="dictionary">law</span>. He shall also perform such other duties as the board imposes upon him.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 15-350.2; 1962, c. 19, &#xA7; 15.1-675.1; 1982, c. 108; 1997, c. 587.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
