The board may appoint a county auditor for the audit and review of county agencies and county-funded functions. The county auditor shall have the power to make performance reviews of operations of county agencies or county-funded programs to ascertain that sums appropriated are expended for the purposes for which such appropriations were made and to evaluate the effectiveness of those agencies and programs. The county auditor shall make such special studies and reports as the board directs.
The board may provide staff assistance to the county auditor that may be independent of the administrative staff of the county. The county auditor and any such staff shall be hired on the basis of merit and shall be paid in conformity with existing pay scales. The county auditor shall serve at the pleasure of the board, and if removed, such removal shall not be subject to review by any other employee, agency, board, or commission of the county or under the grievance procedure adopted pursuant to § 15.2-1506.
2015, c. 282.
Structure Code of Virginia
Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns
Chapter 7 - County Manager Plan of Government
§ 15.2-700. Title of plan; applicability of chapter
§ 15.2-701. Adoption of county manager plan
§ 15.2-702. County board; membership, terms, chairman, etc.
§ 15.2-703. Interference by members of board in appointments and removals of personnel
§ 15.2-704. Appointment of clerk of board; powers and duties; obligations and penalties
§ 15.2-705. Election of members of board; filling vacancies
§ 15.2-705.1. Instant runoff voting
§ 15.2-706. Duties of county manager; compensation; appointment of officers and employees
§ 15.2-707. Bonds of county officers and employees
§ 15.2-709. Investigation of county officers or employees
§ 15.2-709.1. Applicant preemployment information in Arlington County
§ 15.2-711. Certification and payment of payrolls
§ 15.2-712. Certification and payment of certain vouchers
§ 15.2-713. Means of transferring funds
§ 15.2-714. Depository for county funds
§ 15.2-715. Abolition of offices and distribution of duties
§ 15.2-716.1. Board of Equalization
§ 15.2-717. Time in which to contest real property assessments
§ 15.2-718. Postponement of payment of certain assessments
§ 15.2-719. Immobilization, etc., of certain vehicles
§ 15.2-719.1. Naming U.S. Route 29
§ 15.2-720. Employee salary reduction agreements
§ 15.2-720.1. Employee benefits; residence in county
§ 15.2-721. Civil service commission
§ 15.2-723. Grievances by police officers
§ 15.2-724. Choice of powers where sanitary district involved
§ 15.2-725. Commission on human rights; subpoena requests
§ 15.2-726. Acquisition of easements
§ 15.2-727. Payment of certain assessments
§ 15.2-728. Title insurance for county real estate
§ 15.2-729. Relocation assistance programs
§ 15.2-730. Civil penalties for violations of zoning ordinance
§ 15.2-731. Retirement benefits for part-time employees
§ 15.2-732. Peddlers; itinerant merchants
§ 15.2-733. Summons for violations of litter control ordinances
§ 15.2-734. Purchase, sale, exchange, or lease of real property
§ 15.2-736. State benefits for certain employees
§ 15.2-737. Tenant relocation payments
§ 15.2-738. Modification of grievance procedure
§ 15.2-739. Diversion of certain waters
§ 15.2-740. Authority to impose assessments for local improvements; purposes
§ 15.2-741. Regulation of child-care services and facilities in certain counties
§ 15.2-742. Lighting level regulation
§ 15.2-743. Fee for certain vacations, encroachments, and abandonments
§ 15.2-745. Ordinance for installment collection of taxes
§ 15.2-746. Board possesses general power of management
§ 15.2-747. Board may prohibit and penalize acts which are misdemeanors under state law
§ 15.2-748. Annexation by city
§ 15.2-749. Certain referenda in certain counties
§ 15.2-750. Board may accept dedication of rights to develop real property