                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

BOARD TO PROVIDE FOR AND SET UP DEPARTMENTS; REMOVAL OF DEPARTMENT HEAD OR
PERSON ASSIGNED TO COUNTY EXECUTIVE&#8217;S OFFICE; POWERS OF SUPERVISORS
GENERALLY (§ 15.2-821)

The board shall, as soon as its members are elected and take office, provide for
the performance of all the governmental functions of the county and to that end
shall provide for and set up all necessary departments of government consistent
with the provisions of this chapter. Any deputy county executive, assistant
county executive, or department head may be removed at the pleasure of the
board, except as the board may authorize the urban county executive to remove
such employees, and such removal shall not be subject to review by any other
county employee, agency, board or commission or under the grievance procedure
adopted pursuant to § 15.2-1506. The board shall have all authority and powers
provided for by this chapter or by other law and shall have the power to raise
annually by taxes and assessments on property, persons and other subjects of
taxation, which are not prohibited by law, such sums of money as in the judgment
of the board are necessary to pay the debts, defray the expenses, accomplish the
purposes and perform the functions of the county.
		However, any department head who could grieve his own removal from an office
held prior to July 1, 1987, under the law in effect at the time he was appointed
to office, shall retain such right to grieve his own removal from that office
unless that right is waived in writing in consideration of a payment mutually
agreed to by that department head and by the board.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 15-384.50; 1960, c. 382; 1962, c. 623, § 15.1-763; 1966,
c. 464; 1968, c. 797; 1987, c. 419; 1997, c. 587.