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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>76957</law_id><section_number>63.2-301</section_number><catch_line>Local board appointments and terms of office</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>63.2-304</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="63.2">Welfare (Social Services)</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="I">General Provisions Relating to Social Services</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="3">Local Social Services</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">Local Boards of Social Services</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The members of each <span class="dictionary">local board</span> first appointed shall be appointed initially for terms of from one to four years so as to provide for the balanced overlapping of the terms of the membership thereon and the members of a <span class="dictionary">local board</span> representing more than one county or city shall be appointed initially for such terms, of not less than one nor more than four years, as may be determined by the governing bodies of their respective counties or cities. Subsequent appointments shall be for a term of four years each, except that appointments to fill vacancies that occur during terms shall be for the remainder of those unexpired terms. Appointments to fill unexpired terms shall not be considered full terms, and such persons shall be eligible to be appointed to two consecutive full terms. No person may serve more than two consecutive full terms; however, this section shall not apply to a member of a <span class="dictionary">local board</span> who is also a member of the board of supervisors for a county represented by the board, who shall serve at the pleasure of the board of supervisors of which he is a member or until such time as he ceases to be a member of the board of supervisors, or in cases in which a local government official is constituted to be the <span class="dictionary">local board</span>. A member of a <span class="dictionary">local board</span> who serves two consecutive full terms shall be ineligible for reappointment to such <span class="dictionary">local board</span> until the end of an intervening two-year period dating from the expiration of the last of the two consecutive terms.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 63-56; 1952, c. 409; 1956, c. 126; 1968, cc. 467, 578, &#xA7; 63.1-39; 1974, c. 120; 1975, c. 300; 1980, c. 377; 2002, c. 747; 2005, c. 16; 2014, cc. 95, 121.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
