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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>75875</law_id><section_number>63.2-302</section_number><catch_line>How local board for a single county is constituted</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>63.2-305</reference><reference>63.2-306</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 <span class="dictionary">local board</span> serving a single county shall be, at the discretion of the governing body of the county, either a local government official or a <span class="dictionary">local board</span> consisting of residents of the county who are, except as provided in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Local boards in counties having special forms of county government" href="/63.2-303/">63.2-303</a>, appointed by the governing body of the county. If residents of the county constitute the <span class="dictionary">local board</span>, such board shall consist of three or more members. The governing body shall appoint a member of the board of supervisors to be one member of the <span class="dictionary">local board</span>, except in those cases where the board of supervisors has determined otherwise. When a member of the board of supervisors who was appointed as a member of the <span class="dictionary">local board</span> ceases to be a member of the board of supervisors, his office as a member of the <span class="dictionary">local board</span> shall also be vacated and another member of the board of supervisors shall be appointed to fill such vacancy.
		If a local government official constitutes the <span class="dictionary">local board</span>, he may designate a senior staff person in the <span class="dictionary">local department</span> to act in his behalf, in his absence, to approve, cancel or change grants made under the provisions of this title.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7;&#xA7; 63-52, 63-54, 63-56; 1952, c. 409; 1956, c. 126; 1966, c. 258; 1968, cc. 467, 578, &#xA7; 63.1-40; 1970, c. 465; 1972, cc. 147, 714; 1984, c. 586; 2002, c. 747.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
