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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?031+ful+CHAP0633\">633<\/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.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":1426727,"object_type":"law","relational_id":358503,"identifier":"30-168.4","token":"30\/18\/30-168.4","url":"\/30-168.4\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/30-168.4\/","token":"30\/18\/30-168.4","dublin_core":{"Title":"Staffing","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 30-168.4","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>The Commission may appoint, employ, and remove an executive director and such other persons as it deems necessary, and determine their duties and fix their salaries or compensation within the amounts appropriated therefor. The Commission may also employ experts who have special knowledge of the <span class=\"dictionary\">issues<\/span> before it. All agencies of the Commonwealth shall provide assistance to the Commission, upon request.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nSTAFFING (\u00a7 30-168.4)\n\nThe Commission may appoint, employ, and remove an executive director and such\nother persons as it deems necessary, and determine their duties and fix their\nsalaries or compensation within the amounts appropriated therefor. The\nCommission may also employ experts who have special knowledge of the issues\nbefore it. All agencies of the Commonwealth shall provide assistance to the\nCommission, upon request.\n\nHISTORY: 2003, c. 633.","edition":{"id":2,"name":"2026","slug":"2026","date_created":"2026-07-16 18:40:23","date_modified":"2026-08-02 15:14:36","current":1,"order_by":2,"last_import":"2026-08-02 12:37:30"}}