                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

COMMUNITY SERVICES BOARD MEMBERS; TERM OF OFFICE; VACANCIES; REMOVAL (§
37.2-502)

The term of office of each member of a community services board shall be for
three years from January 1 of the year of appointment or, at the option of the
governing body of a county or city, from July 1 of the year of appointment,
except that of the members first appointed, several shall be appointed for terms
of one year each, several for terms of two years each, and the remaining members
of the board for terms of three years each. The appointment of members for
one-year, two-year, and three-year terms shall be as nearly equal as possible
with regard to the total number of members on the board. If a governing body has
appointed members for terms commencing January 1 or July 1 but desires to change
the date on which the terms of office commence, the governing body may, as the
terms of the members then in office expire, appoint successors for terms of two
and one-half or three and one-half years, so that the terms expire on June 30 or
December 31. In the case of a board established by more than one city or county,
the decision to change the date on which terms of office commence shall be the
unanimous decision of all governing bodies. Vacancies shall be filled for
unexpired terms in the same manner as original appointments. No person shall be
eligible to serve more than three full terms; however, a person first appointed
to fill an unexpired term may serve three additional full three-year terms. The
remainder of a term to which a member is first appointed to fill a vacancy shall
not constitute a term in determining the member&#8217;s eligibility for
reappointment. However, after a one-year period has elapsed since the end of the
member&#8217;s last three-year term, the governing body may reappoint that
member. Any member of a board may be removed by the appointing authority for
cause, after being given a written statement of the causes and an opportunity to
be heard thereon.

HISTORY: 1968, c. 477, § 37.1-196; 1970, c. 346; 1972, c. 498; 1977, c. 88;
1979, c. 391; 1980, c. 582; 1998, c. 680; 2005, c. 716; 2007, c. 570; 2010, c.
71.