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Volume | 1908 |
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Law Number | 196 |
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Chap. 196.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1472 of the Code of Virginia,
as heretofore amended, in relation to school officers and teachers not having
any pecuniary interest in school books, appliances, furniture, or supplies;
exceptions: neither school nor corporation officers to discount warrants.
Approved March 12, 1908.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
fourteen hundred and seventy-two of the Code be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:
§1472. School officers and teachers not to have pecuniary interest
directly or indirectly in school books, appliances, furniture or supplies;
exceptions: neither school nor corporation officers to discount warrants.
First. No member of the State board of education, nor any division
superintendent of schools, nor school trustee, nor any other school
officer, nor any teacher of a public free school, shall have any pe-
cuniary interest, directly or indirectly, in any contract for building
a public free schoolhuose or in furnishing material to a contractor
for building such schoolhouse, or in supplying books, maps, school
furniture or apparatus to the public free schools of this State, or act
as agent for any author, publisher, book-seller, or dealer in any such
school furniture or apparatus, directly or indirectly, receive any gift,
emolument, reward, or promise of reward, for his influence in recom-
mending or procuring the use of any book, map, school furniture, or
apparatus of any kind in any public free school of this State. Any
school officer or teacher who shall violate this provision, besides being
removed from his post, shall be subject to a penalty of not less than ten
nor more than five hundred dollars. Exception to the requirements of
this section may be made by the State board of education in the case
of a school officer or teacher being the author of any school book or
map, or the inventor of school furniture or apparatus, in which case
the State board of education may, in its discretion, make specific ar-
rangements whereby such school officer or teacher may, if his book,
map, or invention be adopted by the proper authority, enjoy the
benefits of the proceeds thereof without offense: provided, that no un-
fair advantage be allowed over other competitors in securing the
adoption of the book, map, or invention. Exception shall also be
made in the case of a merchant who in the regular course of trade
and without employing agents to solicit such business, sells either books
selected and adopted by the State board of education or supplies
used in the schools and by the pupils.
Second. It shall not be lawful for any member of a school board,
or any officer of the public free schools, or any firm in which said
trustee or officer is interested, or any agent of such trustee or officer,
to be concerned’ in any contract with a public free school board or a
committee of such school board for any work or labor ordered to be
done, or for goods, wares, or merchandise or supplies of any kind
ordered by a school board or a committee of such school board, except
as provided in first subdivision of this section. It shall be unlawful
for any such trustee or officer to sell, convey, or deliver any goods,
wares, merchandise, or supplies of any kind to a school board or a
committee of such board, or to receive, directly or indirectly, any
profit or emolument from any contract with, or sale to, such board
or a committee thereof, except as provided in this section. If any
such contract or sale shall be made it shall be void, and if such claim
or bill be paid, the amount paid, with interests, may be recovered by
the county or district within two years after payment by action or
motion in the circuit court |having jurisdiction over said county or
district.
Third. It shall be unlawful for any county, district, or school officer,
school trustee, or corporation officer in this Commonwealth to acquire
by purchase, at less than its face value, directly or indirectly, express or
implied, any warrant or other evidence of indebtedness issued by any
board of supervisors or any common council or board of aldermen of
any county, city or town in this Commonwealth, or any warrant or
claim issued by any of the public free school officers or school boards
of this State for the pay of teachers, or the building of schoolhouses,
or purchase of school books, school furniture, or apparatus. Any
such officer or trustee violating the provisions of this section shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall
be punished by a fine of not less than twenty dollars nor more than
five hundred dollars, and in the discretion of the jury may be im-
prisoned in the county or corporation jail not more than six months;
and the judge of every circuit and corporation court in this Common-
wealth shall give this law specially in charge to every grand jury em-
paneled therein.