                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

COUNTIES, CITIES, AND TOWNS GENERALLY (§ 51.1-801)

The governing body of any county, city, or town may, by ordinance adopted by a
recorded vote of a majority of the members elected, establish a retirement
system. The retirement system may cover injured or retired officers and
employees of the county, city, or town. Benefits may be payable to the officers
and employees or their dependents, estates, or designated beneficiaries. The
retirement system may provide for accrued vested or contractual rights
thereunder. The local governing body may, through self-funding or the purchase
of insurance and annuities, or a combination thereof, provide retirement
allowances, death benefits, and group life insurance coverage for officers and
employees of the county, city, or town and group accident and sickness insurance
coverage for officers and employees of the county, city, or town and their
dependents. The governing body may by ordinance establish a fund for the payment
of retirement allowances, death benefits, and insurance and annuity premiums by
appropriating funds from the treasury of the county, city, or town or by
requiring employee contributions through payroll deductions, or both, or by any
other mode not prohibited by law.
		For the purposes of this section, the term &#8220;employees&#8221; may include
teachers or other employees of county, city, and town school boards.
		If any county, city, or town participates in the Virginia Retirement System
and also establishes a local retirement system providing supplemental benefits
to the employees covered under the Virginia Retirement System, the local system
shall not be required to satisfy the retirement age and service criterion
established in clause A (i) of § 51.1-800.

HISTORY: Code 1919, § 3035; 1932, p. 752; 1942, p. 178; 1944, p. 54; 1945, p.
74; 1946, p. 61; Code 1950, § 51-112; 1952, cc. 59, 587; 1959, Ex. Sess., c.
58; 1960, c. 404; 1968, c. 60; 1980, c. 135; 1989, Sp. Sess., c. 3; 1990, c.
832.