                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

RESTRICTIONS ON ACTIVITIES OF FORMER OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES BY CERTAIN COUNTIES
AND CITIES (§ 15.2-1408)

A. The term &#8220;officer or employee,&#8221; as used in this section, includes
members of local governing bodies, county or city officers and employees, and
individuals who receive monetary compensation for service on or employment by
agencies, boards, authorities, sanitary districts, commissions, committees, and
task forces appointed by the local governing body.

B. In the Counties of Bedford, Fauquier, James City, Pittsylvania, and Stafford
and the Cities of Charlottesville and Virginia Beach, the governing body, by
ordinance, may prohibit former officers and employees, for one year after their
terms of office have ended or employment ceased, from providing personal and
substantial assistance for remuneration of any kind to any party, in connection
with any proceeding, application, case, contract, or other particular matter
involving the county or city or an agency thereof, if that matter is one in
which the former officer or employee participated personally and substantially
as a county or city officer or employee through decision, approval, or
recommendation.

C. In the City of Richmond, the governing body, by ordinance, may prohibit
former officers and employees, for one year after their terms of office have
ended or employment has ceased, from representing a client or acting in a
representative capacity on behalf of any person or group, for compensation, on
matters related to ordinances, contracts, proceedings, applications, cases, or
other matters of any nature involving any agency, department, or office of local
government in which the former officer or employee served or was employed during
the one-year period immediately prior to the termination of employment or
service. This prohibition shall be in addition to any other prohibition that may
be provided by law.

HISTORY: 1991, c. 582, § 15.1-29.22; 1997, c. 587; 2003, c. 945; 2005, cc. 257,
289; 2019, cc. 111, 472.