                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

SIGNING RECORDS WHEN CHAIRMAN HAS DIED, MOVED, ETC., BEFORE SIGNING THEM (§
15.2-1241)

When the chairman of any county governing body who should have signed the
records of the proceedings of any meeting of the governing body has died, moved
from the county, completed his term of office or for any other reason become
incapacitated to perform the duties of his office, without having signed such
records, the governing body shall have such records read at a regular meeting
and if no error appears shall direct its then chairman to sign such record. The
governing body shall thereupon enter on its records the fact of such reading and
signing. Such records, when so signed, shall be as valid as if they had been
signed by the chairman who presided at the time when such order or orders were
made.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 15-235; 1962, c. 623, § 15.1-530; 1997, c. 587.