Chap. 198.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act
to create an Armory Commission for the State of Virginia and specify its
authority and duties; to authorize said commission to construct and maintain
armories, drill and training areas for the National Guard and Naval Militia
and their various units; to authorize municipalities, counties, and the State
and others to co-operate in and about the construction of armories and pro-
viding drill and training areas and to assist in paying therefor; and to authorize
municipalities and counties to convey to the State of Virginia lands owned
by them on which to construct armories, whether such lands already be used
for parks or other purposes, approved March 28, 1932. [H B 271]

Approved March 27, 1934

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
three of an act entitled an act to create an Armory Commission for the
State of Virginia and specify its authority and duties; to authorize
said commission to construct and maintain armories, drill and training
areas for the National Guard and Naval Militia and their various units ;
to authorize municipalities, counties, and the State and others to co-
operate in and about the construction of armories and providing drill
and training areas and to assist in paying therefor; and to authorize
municipalities and counties to convey to the State of Virginia lands
owned by them on which to construct armories, whether such lands
already be used for parks or other purposes, approved March twenty-
eighth, nineteen hundred and thirty-two, be amended and re-enacted so
as to read as follows:

Section 3. Acquiring buildings and grounds for armory and training
purposes.—The Armory Commission may, either alone or in co-operation
with counties, cities or incorporated towns, private corporations, volun-
tary unincorporated associations or individuals, construct or acquire
by purchase, contract, lease, gift, donation or condemnation, armories,
buildings, or grounds suitable for drill, instruction and administration
and the safe-keeping of public property, and make additions and im-
provements in or to such armories and facilities, and either alone or
with the like co-operation of others provide heat, light, water, telephone
service, and other costs of operation and maintenance, including 1n-
surance. The amounts to be appropriated out of any armory fund for
the construction and/or acquisition of armories, and for the mainten-
ance and/or rental of armories shall within the limits hereinbefore in
this section set forth, be wholly within the discretion of the Armory
Commission. The Armory Commission is also authorized and empowered
to enter into negiotiations, contracts and agreements with counties,
cities and incorporated towns for the purpose of assisting and enabling
such counties, cities and incorporated towns to secure moneys pursuant
to the provisions of chapter twenty-six of the Acts of the General
Assembly of nineteen hundred and thirty-three, approved September
seventh, nineteen hundred and thirty-three, to purchase, rent, lease or
otherwise acquire property for and to construct, purchase, rent, lease
or otherwise acquire armories as provided for in this act.