CHAPTER 87

An Act to amend and reenact § 22-149 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to condemnation of land for school purposes, so as to change the
lamitations on the acreage of land which may be condemned.

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Approved February 22, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 22-149 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
as follows:

§ 22-149. The school board may condemn for school purposes land
or other property, or any interest or estate therein, including dwellings,
yards, gardens or orchards. If, in the judgment of the school board the
public interest demands that particular land or any interest therein be
acquired for school purposes, the school board shall cause the desired
parcel of land to be surveyed by a 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 court in which pro-
ceedings to condemn such land will be instituted, and, thereupon, on
application of the school board, the same proceedings shall be had as are
prescribed by the laws relating to the exercise of the right of eminent
domain, insofar as they are applicable and not inconsistent herewith; but
such land or interest so condemned shall not exceed * thirty acres for any
one school.

2. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.