Chap. 416.—An ACT to abolish all school districts in the counties of Roanoke,
Pittsylvania and Pulaski, and establish each such county as the unit for all
school purposes except representation; to prescribe the composition of the
county school boards of said counties; to transfer to, and vest in the county
school boards all property acquired, and in any way held, for the use of special
town school districts in said counties; to require the county school boards to
assume, and provide for the payment of all bonds and other valid obligations
of all school districts; to prohibit the issuing of any bonds or creating of any
other form of indebtedness as a charge against any school district; to prohibit
district levies for any school purpose; to provide for county levies for all
necessary school purposes, including capital expenditures and the payment of
indebtedness; to provide for transferring to the county school boards all
balances of school funds in the hands of, or standing to the credit of school
districts and/or special or separate, town district school boards; to repeal all
acts and parts of acts in conflict with any of the provisions of this act, and to
provide for approval of this act by the school boards and boards of super-
visors of said counties before the same shall become effective. [H B 356]

Approved March 31, 1932

Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia as follows:

1. All school districts, including special, or separate, town school
districts, in the counties of Roanoke, Pittsylvania, and Pulaski are
hereby abolished and each such county is hereby established as the unit
for the entire county, including any and all incorporated towns therein,
for all school purposes whatever, save only that of representation.

2. For the purpose of representation only, each magisterial district
and each incorporated town having a population of one thousand or
more, according to the latest United States census, in each of said coun-
ties shall constitute a school district, and the county school board shall
be composed of one member from each such district in the county, to
be appointed or elected as provided by law, provided that the member
from a magisterial district shall not be a resident of any town which is,
by this section, constituted a school district.

3. All property of every kind and character, heretofore acquired
and/or in any manner held for the use of any and all special, or sepa-
rate, town school districts, in each of said counties is hereby transferred
to, vested in, and placed under the management and control of, the
county school boards of the said counties, respectively, in like manner,
and for the same purposes as other district school properties were trans-
ferred to, vested in, and placed under the management and control of
the county school boards by section six hundred and seventy-six of the
Code of Virginia, and the acts of which it is amendatory.

4. All unpaid bonds and other valid outstanding obligations of all
school districts, including special, or separate, town school districts, in
each of said counties no matter in what form such bonds and obliga-
tions, or any of them, may have been issued, are hereby declared to
be, and hereafter shall be deemed to be, the primary obligations of the
county school boards of the said counties, respectively, and such county
school boards shall assume the same, and provide for, the payment
thereof in the manner hereinafter set forth.

5. No bonds, nor any other form of indebtedness, shall hereafter
be issued, or created, and made a charge against any school district,
nor shall there hereafter be any district school levies for any purpose
whatever, in either of said counties. .

6. Each of said counties shall raise, by an annual levy on all prop-
erty in the entire county, subject to local taxation, such amounts as
may be necessary, over and above the amounts received from State
appropriations, and from other sources, for the establishment, main-
tenance and operation of such public free schools and for such capital
expenditures, as, in the judgment of the county school board and the
board of supervisors, the public welfare may require, together with
such amounts as may be necessary to pay the interest on, and provide
for the payment of the principal of, the school indebtedness, including
the indebtedness transferred to, and imposed upon the county by sec-
tion four of this act; provided, however, that the rate of levy on the
one hundred dollars of assessed value of the property subject to such
levy, shall not exceed, in any year, the total rate, including the levy
for capital expenditures, authorized to be levied by the said counties,
respectively, under existing laws.

7. All school funds, including sinking funds, in the hands of, or
standing to the credit of, school districts and/or special, or separate
town district school boards, shall be, and are hereby transferred to the
county school boards of the several counties, respectively, and shall be
by such boards, used for such of the purposes mentioned in the pre-
ceding section, as they may deem proper.

8. The provisions of this act shall not become effective in eithet
of said counties unless and until the same shall be approved by two
thirds of all the members of the county school board and the board o:
supervisors of the county by a recorded yea and nay vote.

9. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with any of the provision:
of this act are hereby repealed.