Code of Virginia
Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns
Chapter 15 - Local Government Personnel, Qualification for Office, Bonds, Dual Office Holding and Certain Local Government Officers

§ 15.2-1500. Organization of local government - A. Every locality shall provide for all the governmental functions...

§ 15.2-1500.1. Employment discrimination prohibited; sexual orientation or gender identity - A. As used in this article, unless the context requires...

§ 15.2-1501. Designation of officers to perform certain duties - Whenever it is not designated by general law or special...

§ 15.2-1502. Employment of certain deputies and assistants; delegation of powers and duties - A. Local government officers may employ, when duly authorized by...

§ 15.2-1503. Tenure of officers and employees; suspension or removal - A. All appointments of officers and hiring of other employees...

§ 15.2-1503.1. Background checks required for certain employees and licensees - Any locality having a local ordinance adopted in accordance with...

§ 15.2-1504. Use of tobacco products by government employees - No employee of or applicant for employment with a locality...

§ 15.2-1505. Employment based on residency prohibited for certain employees - Notwithstanding any contrary provision of general or special law, no...

§ 15.2-1505.1. Applicant preemployment information - A locality may by ordinance, and in accordance with §...

§ 15.2-1505.2. Personnel policies related to the use of public property - Every locality, with the exception of towns having a population...

§ 15.2-1505.3. Localities prohibited from inquiring about arrests, charges, or convictions on employment applications; exceptions - A. As used in this section, "conviction" means any adjudication...

§ 15.2-1506. Establishment of grievance procedure, personnel system and uniform pay plan for employees - Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, general...

§ 15.2-1507. Provision of grievance procedure; training programs - A. If a local governing body fails to adopt a...

§ 15.2-1507.1. Appointment of standing panel in certain counties - Notwithstanding the provisions of § 15.2-1507, in any county with...

§ 15.2-1508. Bonuses for employees of local governments - Notwithstanding any contrary provision of law, general or special, the...

§ 15.2-1508.1. Traveling expenses on business of town, city or county - Any person traveling on business of any locality except as...

§ 15.2-1508.2. Same; where Commonwealth bears portion of expenses - Any person traveling on business of any locality wherein the...

§ 15.2-1508.3. Governing bodies of certain cities and counties may supplement salaries and reimburse traveling expenses of employees of state and local health departments - The Counties of Arlington, Chesterfield, Clarke, Fairfax, Loudoun and Prince...

§ 15.2-1508.4. Certain counties and cities may supplement salaries and reimburse traveling expenses of employees of state mental health clinics - The Counties of Arlington, Chesterfield, Fairfax, Henrico, Loudoun, or Prince...

§ 15.2-1509. Preferences for veterans and people with disabilities in local government employment - Consistent with the requirements and obligations to protected classes under...

§ 15.2-1510. Retirement systems - Any locality may establish a system for the retirement of...

§ 15.2-1510.1. Public announcement of severance packages for certain officials - Severance benefits provided to any departing official appointed by a...

§ 15.2-1511. Allowances to injured officials and employees and their dependents - The governing body of any locality is authorized in its...

§ 15.2-1511.01. Allowances to injured deputy sheriffs - A. In addition to the allowances provided in § 15.2-1511,...

§ 15.2-1511.1. Written benefit information to certain employees - If a local employee develops a life-threatening health condition, the...

§ 15.2-1512. Oath and bond - Before entering upon the duties of his office, the person...

§ 15.2-1512.1. Disposition of property received by subdivisions as result of conversion of mutual insurance company to stock corporation - The governing body of each locality that receives cash, shares...

§ 15.2-1512.2. Political activities of employees of localities, firefighters, emergency medical services personnel, and law-enforcement officers and certain other officers and employees - A. For the purposes of this section: "Emergency medical services...

§ 15.2-1512.3. Telecommuting by local government employees - Each local government is authorized and encouraged to establish and...

§ 15.2-1512.4. Rights of local employees to contact elected officials - Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit or...

§ 15.2-1512.5. Authority of local government employees to issue summonses for misdemeanor violations of certain local ordinances - Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a locality may appoint...

§ 15.2-1513. Joint local government employees permitted - Localities may jointly employ or share the services of any...

§ 15.2-1514. Exercise of powers and duties - Every person employed under § 15.2-1513 shall exercise in each...

§ 15.2-1515. Compensation, benefits and liability insurance of such persons - Every person employed under § 15.2-1513, for purposes of salary,...

§ 15.2-1516. Exceptions - The provisions of §§ 15.2-1513 through 15.2-1515 shall not be...

§ 15.2-1517. Insurance for employees and retired employees of localities and other local governmental entities; participation by certain volunteers - A. Any locality may provide group life, accident, and health...

§ 15.2-1517.1. Formation of not-for-profit benefits consortium - A. As used in this section: "Benefits consortium" means a...

§ 15.2-1518. Liability insurance for officers, employees and volunteers of local government and members of its boards and commissions and constitutional officers - Any locality and any political subdivision thereof may provide liability...

§ 15.2-1519. Liability insurance for employees of local departments and boards of welfare and social services; legal representation - Notwithstanding the provisions of § 15.2-1518, the state Department of...

§ 15.2-1520. Employment of counsel to defend localities and political subdivisions, governing bodies, officers or employees in certain proceedings; costs and expenses of such proceedings - Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, general or...

§ 15.2-1521. Providing legal fees and expenses for officer or employee of county, city or town in certain proceedings - If any officer or employee of any locality is investigated,...

§ 15.2-1522. When and how officers qualify - Every elected county, city, town and district officer, unless otherwise...

§ 15.2-1523. Record of qualification - When an officer qualifies and gives bond, the judge shall...

§ 15.2-1524. Failure to qualify vacates office - If any such officer fails to qualify and give bond,...

§ 15.2-1525. Where officers shall reside - A. Every county officer shall, at the time of his...

§ 15.2-1526. Removal vacates office - If any officer, required by § 15.2-1525 to be a...

§ 15.2-1527. Bonds of officers - Every treasurer or director of finance, sheriff, clerk of a...

§ 15.2-1528. Penalties of bonds of sheriffs, clerks of the circuit court and commissioners of the revenue - The penalty of the bond of a sheriff shall be...

§ 15.2-1529. Amount of bond of treasurer or director of finance of counties - Notwithstanding the provisions of §§ 15.2-416, 15.2-541, 15.2-642, 15.2-707 and...

§ 15.2-1530. Bonds required of treasurers or directors of finance of cities - Notwithstanding any contrary provision of law, general or special, the...

§ 15.2-1531. When certain city and county treasurers not required to give additional bond - Whenever the treasurer for any city or county is appointed...

§ 15.2-1532. Payment of premiums on bonds for more than one year in advance - Governing bodies are authorized to pay out of their respective...

§ 15.2-1533. Bond plan to be forwarded to clerk and Comptroller - The state Department of the Treasury, Division of Risk Management...

§ 15.2-1534. Certain officers not to hold more than one office - A. Pursuant to Article VII, Section 6 of the Constitution...

§ 15.2-1535. Members of governing body not to be elected or appointed by governing body to certain offices - A. Pursuant to Article VII, Section 6 of the Constitution...

§ 15.2-1536. Required and discretionary officers - Every locality shall appoint or designate a clerk for the...

§ 15.2-1537. Financial officer - Every locality, unless otherwise provided for by general law or...

§ 15.2-1537.1. Disposition of state funds locally collected - All state funds collected by the financial officer shall be...

§ 15.2-1538. Clerk for the governing body - The governing body of every locality in this Commonwealth shall...

§ 15.2-1539. General duties of clerk - It shall be the clerk's general duty to: 1. Record...

§ 15.2-1540. Chief administrative officer - The governing body of any locality may appoint a chief...

§ 15.2-1541. Administrative head of government - Every chief administrative officer shall be the administrative head of...

§ 15.2-1541.1. Authority of county administrator to maintain centralized system of accounting - A county administrator shall maintain a centralized system of accounting...

§ 15.2-1542. Creation of office of county, city or town attorney authorized; appointment, salary and duties - A. Every county, city or town, not otherwise authorized to...

§ 15.2-1543. Employment of purchasing agent; duties - A. Any county may employ a county purchasing agent or...

§ 15.2-1544. Counties, cities, towns, school divisions, and certain political subdivisions may establish local trusts or equivalent arrangements to fund postemployment benefits other than pensions - The governing body of any county, city, or town may...

§ 15.2-1545. Postemployment benefits other than pensions defined - Postemployment benefits other than pensions covered by the trust, trusts,...

§ 15.2-1546. Assets of trusts or equivalent arrangements for postemployment benefits other than pensions - The assets of any trust or equivalent arrangement for postemployment...

§ 15.2-1547. Creation of local finance boards to manage the assets of postemployment benefits trust or equivalent arrangement; composition of such boards; alternatives to such boards; liability; and removal from office - Except as otherwise provided herein, the governing body of any...

§ 15.2-1548. Finance boards or alternatives thereto to manage the assets of trusts or equivalent arrangements to fund postemployment benefits other than pensions and provide annual reports; exemption from Public Procurement Act - Except as otherwise provided herein, any finance board or any...

§ 15.2-1549. Investment of assets of trusts or equivalent arrangement for postemployment benefits other than pensions - All funds appropriated to a trust or equivalent arrangement for...

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Code of Virginia Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns Chapter 15 - Local Government Personnel, Qualification for Office, Bonds, Dual Office Holding and Certain Local Government Officers

Code of Virginia
Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns
Chapter 15 - Local Government Personnel, Qualification for Office, Bonds, Dual Office Holding and Certain Local Government Officers