Chap. 149.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 672 of the Code of Virginia
as enacted into law by chapter 471 of the Acts of the General Assembly of
1928, approved March 26, 1928, said chapter being an act to revise, consolidate,
amend and codify the school laws of Virginia, etc., the section here amended
being in relation to the maintenance of public schools and charging tuition.

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Approved March 24, 1934

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
six hundred and seventy-two of the Code of Virginia, as enacted into
law by chapter four hundred and seventy-one of the Acts of the Gen-
eral Assembly of nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, approved March
twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, said chapter being
an act to revise, consolidate, amend and codify the school laws of Vir-
ginia, et cetera, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 672. It shall be lawful for any county school board, or any
county school boards of two or more adjoining counties, to establish
and maintain a public high school at such place as may be both most
convenient for the pupils to attend, and most conductive for the pur-
poses of such school, provided the establishment of such high school or
the teaching of such high school branches shall not be allowed to in-
terfere with the regular and efficient instruction in the elementary
branches. A high school may be conducted either in a separate building
or in the same building in which elementary grades are taught. The
State Board of Education shall prescribe rules and regulations govern-
ing the conduct of high schools, and shall also prescribe requirements
for admission, and the conditions on which properly prepared pupils may
attend such schools. Any county not actually conducting a high school,
but paying tuition for its high school pupils in high schools in other
counties or cities out of the public funds, shall be permitted to share
in the State high school fund. The State Board of Education shall pro-
vide for the inspection of high schools by a competent person, or
persons, and shall see to it that the high schools conform to the standards
prescribed by such board. The State Board of Education, under proper
regulations, shall encourage the establishment and maintenance of high
schools in the counties and cities of the State by the use of such State
appropriation as may be made for high school purposes provided the
elementary grades of the county or city schools have been maintained for
an average term of at least one hundred and sixty school days or a term
satisfactory to said Board of Education, based upon good and sufficient
reasons.

No money shall be paid to any locality from State funds for the
maintenance of high schools, however, unless the county school board
or the city school board shall appropriate from local funds for the
maintenance of such high schools an amount equal at the least to fifty
per centum of the amount allowed from the State appropriation. No
teacher shall be employed in high school instruction whose qualifications
do not meet the standards set up by the State Board of Education. The
State Board shall appropriate out of the high school fund, to the
standard four-year high school, an amount not to exceed one thousand

dollars, and to the two-year high school, organized according to plans
prepared by the State Board of Education for junior high schools an
amount not to exceed eight hundred dollars, unless other provision is
made therefor by the general appropriation or budget bill. The State
board shall have power to make such rules and regulations as may be
necessary for the proper distribution of the funds appropriated for
high schools, which shall be paid out in the same manner other funds
are paid out of the State treasury.

No tuition shall be charged for pupils attending high school; pro-
vided that county and city school boards may charge, under regulations
prescribed by the State Board of Education, tuition for pupils from
one county, or city, attending high school in some other county, or city,
and that the school boards of the cities of Newport News, Hampton
and Portsmouth, Norfolk and Buena Vista, the town of Lexington and
the county of Rockbridge, may charge, under regulations prescribed by
the State Board of Education, tuition for pupils attending high schools
therein, and that the school board of a town constituting a separate
school district and operated by a school board may charge, under regu-
lation prescribed by the State Board of Education, tuition for pupils
from any district of the county or from another county attending high
school in said town, provided such charge shall, in no case, exceed the
actual per capita cost for instruction and maintenance in the high school
department.

With the consent and approval of the State Board of Education and
the division superintendent, in the discretion of the county school board,
high school subjects may be taught in schools having two or more
rooms, when such schools are not less than two miles distant from a high
school operated in said county.