                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

ABOLITION OF OFFICES AND DISTRIBUTION OF DUTIES (§ 15.2-715)

The board, by a majority vote of all the members elected, may abolish any board,
commission, or office of such county except the school board and school
superintendent, and the officers elected by popular vote provided for in Article
VII, Section 4 of the Constitution of Virginia, and may delegate and distribute
the duties, authority and powers of the boards, commissions, or offices
abolished to the county manager or to any other officer of the county it may
think proper. If any such board, commission, or office is abolished, those to
whom the duties thereof are delegated or distributed shall discharge the duties
and exercise the powers and authorities of the abolished entity. Both they and
the county for which they were appointed, or by whom they were employed, shall
enjoy the immunities and exemptions from liability or otherwise that were
enjoyed by the abolished boards, commissions, or offices, prior to the adoption
of the county manager plan of government, except insofar as such duties, powers,
authority, immunities and exemptions have been or hereafter may be changed
according to law.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 15-354; 1962, c. 623, § 15.1-685; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 1;
1997, c. 587; 2005, c. 839.