Chap. 86.—An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section
numbered 668-a, authorizing the operation, by local school boards, of vacation
schools and summer camps. {H B 171]

Approved February 26, 1940

1. Beit enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That the
Code of Virginia be amended by adding thereto a new section, num-
bered section six hundred and sixty-eight-a, which new section shall
read as follows: ,

Section 668-a. Operation of vacation schools and summer camps
by school boards.—The school board of any county, city or town, or
any two or more of such school boards acting in conjunction, may
establish and operate or cause to be established and operated, for
the benefit of children of school age, vacation schools or camps for
the advancement of education, physical training, health, nutrition,
the prevention of communicable diseases, or for any other purpose
deemed by such board or boards beneficial to children of school age
requiring special training or attention or which will promote the
efficiency of their respective school systems; and such school board
or boards may provide and appropriate such sum or sums as may be
reasonable and requisite for such purposes; or may appropriate such
sum or sums and permit the proper use of any school property, under
‘easonable safeguards, toward the establishment and operation of
such vacation school or camp conducted under the auspices and
supervision of any other governmental agency approved by such
school board or boards, for the benefit of children of school age within
the jurisdiction of such board or boards; provided, such appropriation
shall have been included in the school budget approved for the year
in which such appropriation may be made, and provided, further,
that the establishment and operation of such school or camp shall be
approved, as to conditions affecting sanitation and safety, by the
health authorities having jurisdiction of the area in which such
vacation school or camp is located and conducted.