Chap. 475.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 666 of the Code of Virginia
relating to appeals from school boards. {H B 79}

Approved March 24, 1924.

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

Section 666. Appeals.—Any five interested heads of families, resi-
dents of the county, who may feel themselves aggrieved by the action of
any county school board, may, within thirty days after such action, state
their complaint in writing to the division superintendent of schools, who,
if he cannot within ten days after the receipt of the said complaint satis-
factorily adjust same, shall grant an appeal to the school trustee elect-
oral board, which shall meet in the district or in one of the districts
where such complaint originated and shall summon witnesses and take
such action in regard to the said complaint as it may deem proper. Any
action taken or had by this board shall be recorded in the minutes, and
if no appeal be taken therefrom, also in the record book of the county
school board. Either the complainants or the county school board shall
have an appeal as of right from the decision of the school trustee elect-
oral board to the circuit court of the county, or the Judge thereof in
vacation; the proceedings on such appeal shall be informal and no plead-
ings shall be required other than the complaint hereinabove provided
for; the court or judge, in vacation, shall decide finally all questions at
issue and shall have an order entered in the chancery order book setting
forth such decision. A copy of said order shall be entered in the record
book of the county school board against whose action the complaint
was made. When a school is owned or operated jointly by two or more
counties, all questions arising pertaining to said school shall be voted on
by the county boards of the said counties jointly and the majority vote of
the combined boards shall rule unless appealed from as herein provided.