                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

VIRGINIA LAND CONSERVATION BOARD OF TRUSTEES; MEMBERSHIP; TERMS; VACANCIES;
COMPENSATION AND EXPENSES (§ 10.1-1018)

A. The Foundation shall be governed and administered by a Board of Trustees (the
Board). The Board shall have a total membership of 20 members that shall consist
of 18 citizen members and two ex officio voting members as follows: four citizen
members, who may be members of the House of Delegates, to be appointed by the
Speaker of the House of Delegates and, if such members are members of the House
of Delegates, in accordance with the principles of proportional representation
contained in the Rules of the House of Delegates; two citizen members, who may
be members of the Senate, to be appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules; 12
nonlegislative citizen members, one from each of the 11 congressional districts
and one member of a state-recognized or federally recognized Virginia Indian
Tribe, to be appointed by the Governor; and the Secretary of Natural and
Historic Resources, or his designee, and the Secretary of Agriculture and
Forestry, or his designee, to serve ex officio with voting privileges.
Nonlegislative citizen members shall be appointed for four-year terms, except
that initial appointments shall be made for terms of one to four years in a
manner whereby no more than six members shall have terms that expire in the same
year. Legislative members and the ex officio member shall serve terms coincident
with their terms of office. Appointments to fill vacancies, other than by
expiration of a term, shall be made for the unexpired terms. Vacancies shall be
filled in the same manner as the original appointments. All members may be
reappointed. However, no Senate member shall serve more than two consecutive
four-year terms, no House member shall serve more than four consecutive two-year
terms, and no nonlegislative citizen member shall serve more than two
consecutive four-year terms. The remainder of any term to which a member is
appointed to fill a vacancy shall not constitute a term in determining the
member&#8217;s eligibility for reappointment. Nonlegislative citizen members
shall have experience or expertise, professional or personal, in one or more of
the following areas: natural resource protection and conservation, construction
and real estate development, natural habitat protection, environmental resource
inventory and identification, forestry management, farming, farmland
preservation, fish and wildlife management, historic preservation, and outdoor
recreation. At least one of the nonlegislative citizen members shall be a
farmer. Members of the Board shall post bond in the penalty of $5,000 with the
State Comptroller prior to entering upon the functions of office.

B. The Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources shall serve as the chairman
of the Board. The chairman shall serve until his successor is appointed. The
members appointed as provided in subsection A shall elect a vice-chairman
annually from among the members of the Board. A majority of the members of the
Board serving at any one time shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of
business. The Board shall meet at the call of the chairman or whenever a
majority of the members so request.

C. Trustees of the Foundation shall receive no compensation for their services.
All members shall be reimbursed for all reasonable and necessary expenses
incurred in the performance of their duties on behalf of the Foundation as
provided in &#xA7;&#xA7; 2.2-2813 and 2.2-2825. Funding for the costs of
expenses of the members shall be provided by the Department of Conservation and
Recreation.

D. The chairman of the Board and any other person designated by the Board to
handle the funds of the Foundation shall give bond, with corporate surety, in
such penalty as is fixed by the Governor, conditioned upon the faithful
discharge of his duties. The premium on the bonds shall be paid from funds
available to the Foundation for such purpose.

E. The Board shall seek assistance in developing grant criteria and advice on
grant priorities and any other appropriate issues from a task force consisting
of the following agency heads or their designees: the Director of the Department
of Conservation and Recreation, the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer
Services, the State Forester, the Director of the Department of Historic
Resources, the Director of the Department of Wildlife Resources and the
Executive Director of the Virginia Outdoors Foundation. The Board may request
any other agency head to serve on or appoint a designee to serve on the task
force.

HISTORY: 1992, c. 426; 1999, cc. 900, 906; 2000, cc. 21, 294, 494, 1053; 2003,
c. 885; 2005, cc. 633, 758; 2006, c. 45; 2020, c. 958; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c.
401; 2022, c. 705; 2023, c. 222.