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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?971+ful+CHAP0613\">613<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 2019, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0632\">632<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":1379547,"object_type":"law","relational_id":347237,"identifier":"15.2-1201.1","token":"15.2\/II\/12\/1\/15.2-1201.1","url":"\/15.2-1201.1\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/15.2-1201.1\/","token":"15.2\/II\/12\/1\/15.2-1201.1","dublin_core":{"Title":"Discharging employee for service on board prohibited; civil penalty","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 15.2-1201.1","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>A board member in Buchanan <span class=\"dictionary\">County<\/span> shall not be discharged from employment as a result of his absence from employment due to attendance at regular board meetings upon giving reasonable notice to his employer of such absence. 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