                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

PROCEEDINGS AGAINST OFFICERS, ETC., TO COMPEL SETTLEMENT OF ACCOUNTS (§
22.1-121)

The school board shall have the power and duty, in the event of any delinquency
or any irregularity in the acts of any treasurer, officer, agent or employee
handling school funds or of any member of such school board, to take such steps
and institute such legal proceedings as may be necessary and proper in order to
secure complete settlement of the accounts of such treasurer, officer, agent,
employee or member of such school board and a full and clear exhibit of the
transactions of such treasurer, officer, agent, employee or member of such
school board in connection with the receipts and disbursements of any funds for
public school purposes and to compel the payment of any balances that may be in
the hands of such treasurer or other person. The school board shall have the
power and duty to take such steps and institute such legal proceedings as may be
necessary and proper to secure a complete settlement of the accounts of any
trustees to whom any funds or other property for the purposes of public school
education shall have been entrusted and to secure a full and proper
administration of such trusts; and to this end it may institute suit for the
removal, for good cause shown, of such trustee or trustees and for the
appointment of new trustees either to replace those removed or to fill vacancies
and may institute such suits or actions as may be necessary to compel the
payment of any balances in the hands of the old trustee or trustees so removed
or to correct any defect or irregularity whatever in the administration of such
trust fund or other property.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 22-136; 1980, c. 559.