                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

COUNTY AUDITOR (§ 15.2-709.2)

The board may appoint a county auditor for the audit and review of county
agencies and county-funded functions. The county auditor shall have the power to
make performance reviews of operations of county agencies or county-funded
programs to ascertain that sums appropriated are expended for the purposes for
which such appropriations were made and to evaluate the effectiveness of those
agencies and programs. The county auditor shall make such special studies and
reports as the board directs.
		The board may provide staff assistance to the county auditor that may be
independent of the administrative staff of the county. The county auditor and
any such staff shall be hired on the basis of merit and shall be paid in
conformity with existing pay scales. The county auditor shall serve at the
pleasure of the board, and if removed, such removal shall not be subject to
review by any other employee, agency, board, or commission of the county or
under the grievance procedure adopted pursuant to § 15.2-1506.

HISTORY: 2015, c. 282.