Chap. 50.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 681 of the Code of Virginia,
relating to the establishment of public schools. | [H B 34]

Approved February 25, 1930

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion six hundred and eighty-one of the Code of Virginia be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 681. In all localities where the number of children is
sufficient, preference shall be given, under suitable regulations to the
establishment of graded schools. When six or more blind or partially
blind children are found in a county or city, the local school authori-
ties, in co-operation with the Virginia commission for the blind, may
establish and maintain special classes for their education in the public
schools, which classes shall be operated jointly by the local school
board and the Virginia commission for the blind. For the practical
interpretation of this section a definition of a blind or partially blind
child is as follows: A blind child is a child who does not have useful
vision or who cannot see large objects at close range. A partially
blind child is a child who has twenty-seventieths vision, or less in the
best eye, or one who has some progressive eye trouble, which, in the
opinion of a competent ophthalmologist, makes it necessary for the child
to attend a special school, or a special class in the public schools.