§ 1.3. Transition of office holders.

Upon granting of the charter the persons holding office as members of the board of supervisors of the county at the moment of the granting of a charter shall become members of and shall constitute the Board of Supervisors of the County of Chesterfield and shall continue to constitute such board until the election and qualification of their successors subject to the following specific requirements and qualifications:

As members of the new board of supervisors they shall continue to have and exercise all of the rights, powers, and privileges conferred on such board, and shall be subject to all of the duties, liabilities and restrictions now imposed by law on the government of counties using the nonoptional form of government and as vested in members of the board by the provisions of this charter.

Those persons who shall hold office as Commonwealth's attorney, clerk of the circuit court, sheriff, treasurer and commissioner of revenue, immediately preceding granting of a charter, shall by virtue of such chartering become respectively the Commonwealth's attorney, clerk of the circuit court, sheriff, treasurer and commissioner of revenue of the County of Chesterfield, and shall continue to hold office until the expiration of the respective terms for which they were elected or appointed and until their successors have been elected and have qualified. Such officers and their successors shall have and exercise all of the rights, powers and privileges conferred upon them and shall be subject to all of the duties, liabilities and restrictions imposed by law upon such officers of counties of the Commonwealth.