Chap. 126.—An ACT validating, ratifying, approving, and confirming certain bonds
and other instruments or obligations heretofore issued, and validating, rati-
fying, approving, and confirming certain proceedings heretofore taken, by
counties, cities, towns, school districts, school boards, and sanitary districts in,
and educational institutions of, this Commonwealth. [S B 308]

Approved March 7, 1936

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, as follows:

Section 1. This act may be cited as ‘“The Nineteen Hundred and
Thirty-Six Validating Act.”

Section 2. The following term, wherever used or referred to in
this act, shall have the following meaning:

(a) The term “public body” means any county, city, town, school
district, school board or sanitary district in the Commonwealth of Vir-
ginia.

(b) The term “educational institution” shall include each of those
classified as educational institutions by chapter forty-nine of the acts
of nineteen hundred and thirty-three of the General Assembly of
Virginia,

(c) The term “bonds” includes bonds, notes, warrants, debentures,
certificates of indebtedness, temporary bonds, temporary notes, interim
receipts, interim certificates and all instruments or obligations evidenc-
ing or representing indebtedness, or evidencing or representing the
borrowing of money, or evidencing or representing a charge, lien or
encumbrance on specific revenues, income or property of a public
body or educational institution or including all instruments or obliga-
tions payable from a special fund.

Section 3. All bonds heretofore issued for the purpose of financ-
ing or aiding in the financing of any work, undertaking or project by
any public body or educational institution to which any loan or grant
has heretofore been made by the United States of America through
the Federal Emergency Administrator of Public Works for the pur-
pose of financing or aiding in the financing of such work, undertaking
or project, including all proceedings for the authorization and issuance
of such bonds, and the sale, execution, and delivery thereof, are hereby
validated, ratified, approved, and confirmed, notwithstanding any lack
of power (other than constitutional) of such public body or educational
institution or the governing body or commission or officers thereof, to
authorize and issue such bonds, or to sell, execute or deliver the same,
and notwithstanding any defects or irregularities (other than consti-
tutional) in such proceedings, or in such sale, execution or delivery and
notwithstanding that such governing body or commission or officers
may not have been elected, appointed or qualified for the offices they
purported to hold; and such bonds are and shall be binding, legal, valid
and enforceable obligations of such public body, or of such educational
institution to the extent provided by chapter forty-nine of the Acts of
the General Assembly of nineteen hundred and thirty-three.

Section 4. All proceedings, which have been taken prior to the
date this act takes effect, for the purpose of financing or aiding in the
financing of any work, undertaking or project by any public body or
educational institution to which any loan or grant is under contract to
be made by the United States of America through the Federal Emer-
gency Administrator of Public Works for the purpose of financing or
aiding in the financing of such work, undertaking or project, including
all proceedings for the authorization and issuance of bonds, and for the
sale, execution and delivery thereof, are hereby validated, ratified, ap-
proved, and confirmed, notwithstanding any lack of power (other than
constitutional) of such public body or educational institution or the
governing body or commission or officers thereof, to authorize and issue
such bonds, or to sell, execute or deliver the same, and notwithstanding
any defects or irregularities (other than constitutional) in such proceed-
ings.