CHAPTER 220

An Act to amend and reenact § 22-48.1, as amended, of the Code of
Virginia, relating to dissolution of special town school districts in
certain counties.

[H 584]

Approved March 11, 1954
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 22-43.1, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 22-43.1. The special school districts for the town of Leesburg of
Loudon County and of Lexington of Rockbridge County and the town
of Bedford of Bedford County and the town of Fries of Grayson County,
and the separate school districts of the town of Herndon and the town
of Falls Church of Fairfax County, and the town of Colonial Beach of
Westmoreland County, and any other such separate, special or special
town school district, heretofore or hereafter created, by or under the pro-
visions of the preceding section, whether for the purpose of representa-
tion on the county school board or for the purpose of being operated
as a separate school district as above, except the special town school dis-
trict of Galax of Carroll County and Grayson County, may, by ordinance
of the town council, or other governing body, and by and with the approval
of the county school board and the State Board, be dissolved as a separate
school district, and, upon dissolution, such separate school district shall
be and become a part of the county school unit and shall be managed,
operated and controlled by the county school board as a part of such unit,
and all school property, real and personal, the title to which is held by the
school board of any such separate, special or special town school district
shall vest by operation of law in the county school board for school pur-
poses; provided that in the event of the dissolution of the special town
school district of the town of Bedford, the school board of the county
may with the approval of the governing body of the county pay to the
town the fair value of such school property. Such ordinance shall state
what disposition is to be made of any balance in the school funds of any
such separate, special or special town school district at the time of its
dissolution and shall provide for disposition of any outstanding bonded
indebtedness of such school district.