CHAPTER 321

An Act to amend and reenact § 22-142 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to adjustment of school funds when nonresident pupils attend schools
of another locality. [H 524]

Approved March 10, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

a That § 22-142 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
ollows:

§ 22-142. The school funds, to be distributed by the State to any
county or city in which any child not a resident of such county or city
attends its public schools when such child has been placed in foster or
other such care in such county or city by any State or local agency
authorized so to do under the laws of Virginia, or has been placed in an
orphanage or children’s home which exercises legal guardianship rights,
shall be increased proportionately to reimburse such county or city for the
cost of attendance on the part of such child in the public schools of the
county or city in which so placed. This increase for such reimbursement
shall be made from school funds distributable to the county or city of the
residence of the child if it was a resident of this State at the time of such
placement.

This reimbursement shall be computed and paid as follows: The
school authorities of the county or city in which any such child so placed
attends school shall keep an accurate record as to the child’s attendance
in any public school in such county or city, and at the end of the school
year such authorities shall certify, by July first, following, to the State
Board: (1) the number of days which such child attended school, (2) the
amount per child, exclusive of the children herein referred to, spent from
local funds in educating children, (3) the county or city of residence of
such child if a resident of the State at time of placement, or that it was
not a resident of the State at time of placement if such was the case, (4)
the county or city from which such child was sent and placed in the
county or city in which he so attends school, (5) the official *, agency or
person by whom or which the child was so placed. The State Board shali
then, from State school funds available for the succeeding year and not
segregated by the Constitution, deduct from the amount for distribution to
the county or city of residence of such child an amount necessary to reim-
burse the county or city in which the child attended school for the cost
to such locality of his attendance in such public school.
CHS. 821, 322, 323] ACTS OF ASSEMBLY 383

Provided that when any such child so placed under authority of any
law of Virginia was not a resident of this State and the circumstances
were such that there was no obligation as to education of such child upon
any county or city in this State at the time it was so sent and placed in
the county or city where it so attends public school, the county or city in
which the child was so placed and so attends public school shall be reim-
bursed by the State out of the general funds appropriated for the purpose
of public free school education and distributable to the localities, an the
State Board is authorized to determine finally whether this proviso or
the principal provisions of this section shall be applied in any case in
which any question is raised. . .

Any amounts disbursed under any of the provisions of this section
shall be distributable in the same manner as in the case of other dis-
tributable school funds.