Chap. 153.—An ACT to provide for the use of district schoolhouses out of
school hours. (S. B. 85.)

Approved March 20, 1914.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
when a responsible resident citizen of any school district may apply
to any school trustee of said district for the use of a school house,
to be used when the school is not in session during the school term
or in vacation, by any lawful assembly of educational, agricultural,
civic or social bodies, organizations or gatherings, the said trustee
may grant the use of said building; and if said trustee refuse the
use of the same, he shall state his decision in writing, and if a
demand, signed by five freeholders of said district be then presented
to the chairman of said district school board, the said chairman
shall promptly call a meeting of the district school board to consider
the request for the use of said building and whether the use thereof
shall be granted to said freeholders, who shall be responsible for the
use and care of said school property and of avoidable damages and
the return of the key to the teacher of said district, if school be in
term, or to the trustee of said district in vacation. An appeal of
right shall also lie from the decision of the district school board
to the school trustee electoral board of the county in which said
schoolhouse is located, the decision of said last named ‘board to
be final.