§ 2.2-2828. How certain officers removed from office
The Secretary of the Commonwealth, the State Treasurer, the Comptroller, the Superintendent of Public Instruction or the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services may be removed from office by joint vote of the two houses of the General Assembly, or, during the recess thereof, may be suspended by the Governor. This power shall not be exercised by the Governor except for misbehavior, incapacity, neglect of official duty, or acts performed without due authority of law. In any case in which this power is so exercised by the Governor, he shall fill the office by a temporary appointment, and report to the General Assembly, at the beginning of the next session thereof, the fact of such suspension and the cause therefor, whereupon the General Assembly shall determine whether such officer shall be restored or finally removed.
(Code 1950, § 2-13; 1966, c. 677, § 2.1-17; 2001, c. 844.)
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