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(Continued from Page 1) board member pending receipt of Coleman’s ruling.

“With certain exceptions inapplicable to your inquiry, the General Assembly has provided that county officers may not also serve on the school board for their county,” Coleman noted in his letter.

This restriction against dual office holding applies only to school board members, Baumgardner emphasized. Under Virginia law, school boards are “supposed to be above politics, an independent entity,” he said.

Members of the welfare board are appointed by the local governing body for specific terms established by statute. Their duties are also set forth by statute and the individual appointees must give the usual oath of office. “Accordingly, the appointees

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