CHAPTER 42

An Act to provide for the submission of proposed amendments to § 141
of the Constitution of Virginia to the qualified voters for ratification
or rejection, and to prescribe when and how such referendum shall
be had, and the manner in which the results thereof shall be ascer-
tained and certified, the returns canvassed, and the vote thereon
proclaimed by the Governor.

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Approved February 15, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. It shall be the duty of the officers conducting the election directed
by law to be held on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, nine-
teen hundred fifty-two at the places appointed for holding the same, to
open a poll and take the sense of the qualified voters upon the ratification
or rejection of the proposed amendment to the Constitution of Virginia,
contained in the joint resolution proposing the said amendment to the
Constitution of Virginia, and directing a submission of said proposed
amendment to the people for their approval and ratification, to wit:

Strike from the Constitution of Virginia Section one hundred and
forty-one, which reads as follows:

§ 141. State appropriations prohibited to schools or institutions of
learning not owned or exclusively controlled by the State or some sub-
division thereof; exceptions to rule-—No appropriation of public funds
shall be made to any school or institution of learning not owned or
exclusively controlled by the State or some political subdivision thereof ;
provided, first, that the General Assembly may, in its discretion, continue
the appropriations to the College of William and Mary; second, that this
section shall not be construed as requiring or prohibiting the continuance
or discontinuance by the General Assembly of the payment of interest
on certain bonds held by certain schools and colleges as provided by an
act of the General Assembly, approved February twenty-third, eighteen
hundred and ninety-two, relating to bonds held by schools and colleges;
third, that counties, cities, towns, and districts may make appropriations
to nonsectarian schools of manual, industrial, or technical training, and
also to any school or institution of learning owned or exclusively controlled
by such county, city, town, or school district.

And insert in lieu thereof the following:

§ 141. State appropriations prohibited to schools or institutions of
learning not owned or exclusively controlled by the State or some sub-
division thereof; exceptions to rule-—No appropriation of public funds
shall be made to any school or institution of learning not owned or ex-
clusively controlled by the State or some political subdivision thereof ;
provided, first, that the General Assembly may appropriate funds to an
agency, or to a school or institution of learning owned or controlled by
an agency, created and established by two or more States under a joint
agreement to which this State is a party for the purpose of providing
educational facilities for the citizens of the several States joining in such
agreement; second, that counties, cities, towns, and districts may make
appropriations to nonsectarian schools of manual, industrial, or technical
training, and also to any school or institution of learning owned or ex-
clusively controlled by such county, city, town, or school district.

Schedule

At such election a ballot shall be furnished each voter which shall have
printed thereon the following:

Question: Shall section one hundred forty-one of the Constitution of
Virginia be amended so as to permit the General Assembly to appropriate
funds to an agency, or to a school or institution of learning created by two
or more States, under an agreement to which the State is a party, for
the purpose of providing educational ggcilities for the citizens of the
several States joining in such agreemené?

(] For

[] Against

The ballot shall be prepared, distributed and voted, and the results
thereof ascertained and certified, in the manner prescribed by § 24-141
of the Code of Virginia. It shall be the duty of the clerks and commis-
sioners of election of each county and city, respectively, to make out, certify
and forward an abstract of the votes cast for and against said proposed
amendment in the manner now prescribed by law in relation to votes cast
in general elections.

It shall be the duty of the State Board of Elections to open and
canvass the said abstracts of returns, and to examine and make statement
of the whole number of votes given at said election for said proposed
amendment and against said proposed amendment, respectively, in the
manner now prescribed by law in relation to votes cast in general elections;
and it shall be the duty of the State Board of Elections to record said
certified statement in its office, and without delay to make out and
transmit to the Governor of the Commonwealth an official copy of said
statement, certified by it.

The Governor shall, without delay, make proclamation of the result,
stating therein the aggregate vote for and against said amendment, to be
published in such newspapers in the State as may be deemed requisite
for general information; and if a majority of said votes be cast for the
ratification of the amendment, he shall annex to his proclamation a copy
thereof. The State Board of Elections shall cause to be sent to the clerks
of each county and corporation, at least thirty days before the election,
as many copies of this act as there are places of voting therein; and it
shall be the duty of such clerks to forthwith deliver the same to the
sheriffs of their respective counties and cities for distribution. Each such
sheriff shall forthwith post a copy of such act at some public place in each
election district at or near the usual voting place in the said district.

The expenses incurred in conducting this election shall be defrayed
as in the case of the election of members of the General Assembly.