                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

TRANSITION FROM APPOINTED TO ELECTED SCHOOL BOARD (§ 22.1-47.3)

If the change to an elected school board is approved by the voters, the
appointed members of the school board in office at the time of the referendum
approving the change shall continue in office for the balance of their appointed
terms except that each term shall expire on the December 31 immediately
succeeding the June 30 expiration date for the appointed term. In the event of a
vacancy in an unexpired term of any appointed school board member, a replacement
shall be elected at the next regularly scheduled general election to fill the
remainder of the term. No special election shall be held, however, if the
general election at which it is to be held is scheduled in the year in which the
term expires.
		At the first and each succeeding November election, one school board member
shall be elected for each position on the school board occupied by an appointed
member whose term expires the following December 31 until the school board is
composed entirely of elected members. Successor school board members shall be
elected each November for four-year terms commencing on January 1 of the year
following the election. The requirement of subsection B of § 22.1-57.3 that the
same number of members of the governing body and school board be elected at each
November election shall not be applicable.

HISTORY: 1993, c. 88; 1996, c. 185.