CHAPTER 426

An Act to amend and reenact § 42-25, as amended, of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to limitations on original grants of State aid to public

libraries.
[H 480]
Approved March 29, 1958

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 42-25, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 42-25. Original grants shall be limited to not more than one dollar
per capita of the county or region as shown by the last preceding United
States census and in no case to exceed * fifty thousand dollars. Such grants
shall be made to areas approved by the State Library Board under
standards fixed by it. Not more than one library in a county or regional
free library system shall receive aid under this chapter, and such library
shall serve as an administrative center for county or regional free library
service to the whole county or region; provided that in the case of a
contract with an adjacent library for county or regional free library
service as provided in §§ 42-8 and 42-12, such aid shall be given to the
library contracting to give such service, which library shall then be the
administrative center for a county or regional free library system. Original
grants may be expended for a stated period under the direct authority
of the State Library Board under standards and requirements established
by the Board.