Chap. 22.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2968 of the Code of Virginia,
as heretofore amended, in relation to annexation, property to be included
and property not to be included in annexed territory, and persons to be
included and persons not to be included in enumeration of population. ai

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Approved February 26, 1938

I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion twenty-nine hundred and sixty-eight of the Code of Virginia, as
heretofore amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

Section 2968. In no annexation proceedings instituted by any city
or town under the provisions of this chapter or the provisions of any
other statute, shall an area or portion of any county be annexed to
any city unless, after the annexation of said area, there will remain
in said county at least as much as sixty square miles of unannexed
territory; provided, however, that if prior to the passage of this act
anv city has become and is now the owner of a public building or
buildings situated on territory or land immediately contiguous to said
city. then said city shall be permitted to institute and conduct, in ac-
cordance with the provisions of the statutes applicable, proceedings
for the annexation of the land on which said building or buildings are
situated, and a sufficient area surrounding same to permit of the rea-
sonable use of said building or buildings for the purposes for which
same are customarily used, even though after such annexation the
unannexed area remaining in the county be less than sixty square
miles. No city or town in extending its corporate limits under the
provisions of this chapter, shall include the territory of any national
soldiers’ home for disabled volunteer soldiers, the inmates of which,
by reason of their residence in such home do not acquire the rights
of citizenship, and the property of which institution is not taxable for
state or municipal purposes, nor shall such city or town enumerate in
its census the inmates of such homes as a part of its population. If
any city or town, when extending its corporate limits under the pro-
visions of this chapter, shall.include in such new corporate limits the
grounds of any normal or agricultural institute of this State, the prop-
erty of which is not taxable for State or municipal purposes, then only
such persons as have acquired a permanent right in such institution
shall be included in the enumeration of population or census of such
city or town.