                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DUTIES OF BOARD IN FIXING SALARIES, EXPENSES, ETC (§ 15.2-1636.8)

All salaries of such officers shall be as hereinafter provided. The expenses and
other allowances of all such officers shall be fixed and determined on or before
May 1 of each year. The Board shall, no later than the fifteenth day following
final adjournment of the General Assembly of Virginia in each session, provide
to such officers and the local governing body of each city and county he
represents, an estimate of expenses and other allowances to be fixed by the
Board for the next fiscal year. The Board shall, at meetings duly called by the
chairman, carefully consider the questionnaires and written requests filed as
required by § 15.2-1636.7 and consider the work involved in the discharge of
the duties of the respective officers, the extent to which such duties are
imposed by actions of the local governing body, the amount expended or proposed
to be expended by each for clerks, deputies and other assistants, the efficiency
with which the affairs of each such office are conducted, and such other matters
as the Board may deem pertinent and material, including the number of local
governments served if more than one, including the pay and compensation plan of
each political subdivision, if it has one, and the locality&#8217;s plans for
adjustments of salaries and expenses for the ensuing fiscal year, as well as the
plan of the Commonwealth for adjustment of state salaries and expenses for such
year. The Board shall fix and determine what constitutes a fair and reasonable
budget for the participation of the Commonwealth toward the total cost of the
office. In its deliberations with respect to any office of an attorney for the
Commonwealth, the Board shall not consider whether volunteer assistants are
being used in that office. Such budgets, in the aggregate, shall not contemplate
state expenditures in excess of the appropriation available to the Board. Prior
to holding any such meeting for the fixing of salaries and expenses as provided
in this article, ten days&#8217; written notice of the time, place and purpose
of such meeting shall be given every officer affected and to the mayor or city
manager of the city or to the chairman of the governing body and administrator,
executive or manager of the county affected.
		When the salaries, expenses and other allowances for the several counties and
cities have been tentatively fixed by the Board they shall notify the governing
body of each city and county of the amounts so fixed. Within thirty days
thereafter, but not later, the governing body may file with the Compensation
Board any objection it may have to such allowances so fixed. When such objection
is filed the Board shall fix a time for a hearing on such objection, of which
time the governing body as well as the officer affected shall have at least
fifteen days&#8217; notice. For the purpose of determining the merits of such
protest the governing body may designate two members of such body to serve as
additional members of the Compensation Board and such additional members shall
each have one vote on the Board.
		The chairman of the Board shall record the salary of each such officer, his
clerks, assistants and deputies, and the allowances made for other items, and
shall promptly notify each such officer of the same with respect to his office.
		In fixing, determining and recording the salaries of the full-time deputy
sheriffs mentioned in § 15.2-1609.2, the Board shall act solely with reference
to establishing an aggregate allowance for personal services to the respective
sheriffs for such deputy sheriffs. The annual salary of each such full-time
deputy sheriff shall be fixed and determined as provided by § 15.2-1609.2.

HISTORY: Code 1950, §§ 14-63, 14-64; 1964, c. 386, § 14.1-51; 1966, c. 688;
1979, cc. 233, 538; 1980, cc. 587, 588; 1983, c. 382; 1989, c. 242; 1994, cc.
780, 792; 1998, c. 872; 2000, c. 913.