Chap. 271.—An ACT to amend section 582 of the Code of Virginia. [H B 114]
Approved March 19, 1920.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
five hundred and eighty-two of the Code of Virginia be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 582. When works of art not to become property of State;
removal ; relocation or alteration of existing works of art; provisions
concerning structures and fixtures——Hereafter no work of art shall
become the property of the State by purchase, gift or otherwise, unless
such work of art or a design of the same, together with the proposed
location of such work of art, shall first have been submitted to and
approved by the commission; nor shall any work of art, until so sub-
mitted and approved, be contracted for, placed in or upon or allowed
to extend over any property belonging to the State. No existing work
of art owned by the State shall be removed, relocated or altered in
any way without submission to the commission.

No construction or erection. of any building of any nature, which
is to be paid for, either wholly or in part, by appropriation from the
State treasury, or which is to be placed on or allowed to extend over
any property belonging to the State, and no construction or erection
of any bridge, arch, gate, fence, or other structure or fixture intended
primarily for ornamental or memorial purposes, and which is to be
paid for, either wholly or in part by appropriation from the State
treasury, or which is to be placed on or allowed to exterid over any
property belonging to the State, shall be begun, unless the design and
proposed location thereof shall have been submitted to the commis-
sion and its artistic character approved in writing by the majority
of the members of the commission, or unless said commission shal
have failed to disapprove in writing the design. within thirty days
after its submission. Furthermore, no existing structure of the kinds
named and described in the preceding part of this paragraph, owned
by the State, shall be removed or remodeled without submission to
the commission and the artistic character of the proposed new struc-
ture approved in writing by it, or unless said commission shall have
failed to disapprove in writing the design within thirty days after
its submission.