                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

APPOINTMENT AND TENURE OF COMMISSIONERS; COMPENSATION (§ 36-11)

When the need for an authority to be activated in a city or county has been
determined in the manner prescribed by law, the governing body of the city or
county shall appoint not more than nine or less than five persons as
commissioners of the authority created for such city or county. The governing
body of the city or county may subsequently increase the number of commissioners
of the authority to a maximum of nine. The commissioners who are first appointed
shall be designated to serve for terms of one, two, three, four and five years,
respectively, from the date of their appointment, but thereafter commissioners
shall be appointed as aforesaid for a term of office of four years except that
all vacancies shall be filled for the unexpired term. Notwithstanding any
special or general law to the contrary, after July 1, 2017, no member of the
Chesapeake Redevelopment and Housing Authority shall serve more than two
consecutive terms. Any person who has served more than one and one-half terms as
a member of the Chesapeake Redevelopment and Housing Authority as of July 1,
2017, shall not be eligible for reappointment for another consecutive term. A
member of the Chesapeake Redevelopment and Housing Authority shall serve at the
pleasure of the city council of the City of Chesapeake. No Chesapeake
Redevelopment and Housing Authority member shall work for the Authority within
one year after serving as a member. Except as may be otherwise expressly
provided in the charter of a city or town specifically pertaining to such
authority, no commissioner of any authority may be an officer or employee, of
the city or county for which the authority is created. A commissioner shall hold
office until his successor has been appointed and has qualified. A certificate
of the appointment or reappointment of any commissioner shall be filed with the
clerk and such certificate shall be conclusive evidence of the due and proper
appointment of such commissioner. A commissioner may receive compensation as may
be determined by a locality for each meeting of the authority attended by the
commissioner. A commissioner shall be entitled to the necessary expenses,
including traveling expenses, incurred in the discharge of his duties.
		Any exercise of the powers of an authority by its commissioners after June 30,
1968, otherwise in compliance with applicable law, is hereby declared to be
valid and effective in all respects, notwithstanding that the number of
commissioners exercising the powers, though not exceeding seven from July 1,
1968, through June 30, 1978, and not exceeding nine thereafter, may have
exceeded the number appointed at the time the need for the authority to be
activated had been determined in accordance with this section. No suit or action
to vacate or set aside any exercise of said powers may be brought on the ground
that the number of commissioners, though not exceeding seven from July 1, 1968,
through June 30, 1978, and not exceeding nine thereafter, did exceed the number
appointed at the time the need for the authority to be activated had been
determined.

HISTORY: 1938, p. 449; Michie Code 1942, § 3145(5); 1956, c. 615; 1958, c. 82;
1968, c. 696; 1978, c. 557; 1986, c. 357; 1987, c. 102; 1988, c. 601; 2007, c.
247; 2010, c. 311; 2017, cc. 541, 557.