§ 15.2-518 Departments of the county
§ 15.2-519 Department of finance; director; general duties
§ 15.2-520 Department of Finance; expenditures and accounts
§ 15.2-521 Same; powers of commissioners of revenue; real estate reassessments
§ 15.2-522 Same; powers of county treasurer; deposit of moneys
§ 15.2-523 Same; claims against counties; accounts
§ 15.2-524 Same; director as purchasing agent
§ 15.2-525 Same; obligations of chief assessing officer
§ 15.2-526 Department of public works
§ 15.2-527 Department of social services
§ 15.2-528 Department of law enforcement
§ 15.2-529 Appointment of county attorney
§ 15.2-530 Powers and duties of sheriff
§ 15.2-531 Department of education
§ 15.2-532 Terms of school boards
§ 15.2-533 Elected school boards
§ 15.2-534 Department of health
§ 15.2-535 Department of assessments
§ 15.2-536 Selection of clerk, attorney and sheriff
§ 15.2-537 Officers not affected by adoption of plan
§ 15.2-538 Examination and audit of accounts and books
§ 15.2-539 Submission of budget by executive; hearings; notice; adoption
§ 15.2-540 Officers and employees to receive regular compensation; fee system abolished; collection and disposition of fees
§ 15.2-541 Bonds of officers
§ 15.2-542 Employee benefits; residence in county

Terms Used In Virginia Code > Title 15.2 > Subtitle I > Chapter 5 > Article 3 - Departments; County Executive Form

  • Account: means any deposit or credit account with a bank including demand, time savings passbook, share draft, or like account, other than an account evidenced by a certificate of deposit;

    (2) "Afternoon" means the period of a day between noon and midnight;

    (3) "Banking day" means the part of a day on which a bank is open to the public for carrying on substantially all of its banking functions, but shall not include Saturday, Sunday or a legal holiday;

    (4) "Clearing house" means an association of banks or other payors regularly clearing items;

    (5) "Customer" means a person having an account with a bank or for whom a bank has agreed to collect items, including a bank that maintains an account at another bank;

    (6) "Documentary draft" means any negotiable or nonnegotiable draft with accompanying documents, securities or other papers to be delivered against honor of the draft; or a draft to be presented for acceptance or payment if specified documents, certificated securities (§ 8. See Virginia Code 8.4-104

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
  • Board of supervisors: means the governing body of a county. See Virginia Code 15.2-102
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • County: means any existing county or such unit hereafter created. See Virginia Code 15.2-102
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Draft: means a draft as defined in § 8. See Virginia Code 8.4-104
  • Drawee: means a person ordered in a draft to make payment;

    (9) "Item" means an instrument or a promise or order to pay money handled by a bank for collection or payment. See Virginia Code 8.4-104

  • Governing body: means the board of supervisors of a county, council of a city, or council of a town, as the context may require. See Virginia Code 15.2-102
  • in writing: include any representation of words, letters, symbols, numbers, or figures, whether (i) printed or inscribed on a tangible medium or (ii) stored in an electronic or other medium and retrievable in a perceivable form and whether an electronic signature authorized by Chapter 42. See Virginia Code 1-257
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Person: includes any individual, corporation, partnership, association, cooperative, limited liability company, trust, joint venture, government, political subdivision, or any other legal or commercial entity and any successor, representative, agent, agency, or instrumentality thereof. See Virginia Code 1-230
  • Process: includes subpoenas, the summons and complaint in a civil action, and process in statutory actions. See Virginia Code 1-237
  • real estate: includes lands, tenements and hereditaments, and all rights and appurtenances thereto and interests therein, other than a chattel interest. See Virginia Code 1-219
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes any of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the United States Virgin Islands. See Virginia Code 1-245
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Supervisor: means a member of the board of supervisors of a county. See Virginia Code 15.2-102
  • Town: means any existing town or an incorporated community within one or more counties which became a town before noon, July one, nineteen hundred seventy-one, as provided by law or which has within defined boundaries a population of 1,000 or more and which has become a town as provided by law. See Virginia Code 15.2-102
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.