2006 Code of Virginia § 24.2-230 - Applicability of article; certain exceptions

24.2-230. Applicability of article; certain exceptions.

This article shall apply to all elected or appointed Commonwealth,constitutional, and local officers, except officers for whose removal theConstitution of Virginia specifically provides.

However, an appointed officer shall be removed from office only by the personor authority who appointed him unless he is sentenced for a crime as providedfor in 24.2-231 or is determined to be "mentally incompetent" as providedfor in 24.2-232. This exception shall not apply to an officer who is (i)appointed to fill a vacancy in an elective office or (ii) appointed to anoffice for a term established by law and the appointing person or authorityis not given the unqualified power of removal.

This article shall be applicable to members of local electoral boards andgeneral registrars, but shall not be applicable to assistant registrars whomay be removed from office by the general registrar pursuant to 24.2-112 orto officers of election who may be removed from office by the local electoralboard pursuant to 24.2-109.

(1975, cc. 515, 595, 24.1-79.1, 24.1-79.2; 1993, c. 641; 1998, c. 582;2004, cc. 27, 391.)