Chap. 53.—An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section
numbered 653-a, prescribing how certain county school boards shall be con-
stituted and the members of such boards appointed, and ratifying and validating
acts and proceedings of certain school boards affected. [H B 90]

Approved February 20, 1940

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That
the Code of Virginia be amended by adding thereto a new section
numbered six hundred and fifty-three-a, which new section shall read
as follows:

Section 653-a. In each county of the State having a county
manager form of county organization and government adopted under
and pursuant to the provisions of sections twenty-seven hundred and
seventy-three-a to twenty-seven hundred and seventy-three-n, both
inclusive, of the Code of Virginia, and in which county magisterial
districts have been abolished, the school board of such county shall
on and after July first, nineteen hundred and forty, be composed of
five members who shall be appointed from the county at large by the
school trustee electoral board of such county in accordance with
other applicable provisions of general law. All acts and proceedings
of the school board of each such county taken or had prior to July
first, nineteen hundred and forty, are hereby ratified and validated.