CHAPTER 63

An Act to provide for the employment of counsel to defend the actions
of members of school boards and to provide for the payment of costs,
exponnns and liabilities levied against such members out of local publie
funds.

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Approved September 29, 1956
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the attorney for
the Commonwealth or other counsel approved by the school board may be
employed by the school board of any county, city or town, to defend it,
or any member thereof, or any school official, in any legal proceeding,
to which the school board, or any member thereof, or any school official,
may be a defendant, when such proceeding is instituted against it, or
against any member thereof by virtue of his actions in connection with
his duties as such member.

§ 2. All costs, expenses and liabilities of proceedings so defended
shall be a charge against the county, city or town treasury and paid out
of funds provided by the governing body of the county, city or town in
which such school board discharges its functions.

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