Chap. 68.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 669, as heretofore amended, of
the Code of Virginia, relating to condemnation of land for school purposes, so
as to permit condemnation in counties of parcels of land not exceeding fifteen
acres. [S B 77]

Approved February 25, 1942

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
six hundred and sixty-nine of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore
amended, be amended and re-enacted, as follows:

Section 669. Condemnation of Land for School Purposes.—If, in
the judgment of the school board, the public interest demands that a
schoolhouse be located on a particular spot, or when a schoolhouse is
already located upon land purchased or acquired for such purposes and
more land is needed for school purposes, and no equitable arrangement
proves to be practicable, the school board shall be authorized and it shall
be its duty to cause the desired parcel of land to be surveyed by the
county surveyor, city engineer, or other competent surveyor and a plat of
the same to be filed, together with a general statement of the case, with
the clerk of the circuit court for the county or corporation court for the
city, and thereupon, on application of the school board, the same proceed-
ings shall be had as are prescribed by the laws relating to the exercise of
the right of eminent domain, but no parcel of land thus condemned shall
exceed fifteen acres for any one school in a county, nor five acres in a
city. ,

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