Chap. 229.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 41 of an act entitled an act
to provide a new charter for the town of Waynesboro, Virginia, and to repeal

all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith, approved March 26, 1928.
[fH B 392]

Approved March 27, 1934

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
forty-one of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the
town of Waynesboro, Virginia, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts
in conflict therewith, approved March twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred
and twenty-eight, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 41. The town of Waynesboro shall constitute a separate
school district. It shall have a school board consisting of three members,
one of whom shall be appointed annually by the council of the town,
to serve for a term of three years; the eligibility and compensation of
the members of the school board shall be the same as prescribed by
law.

The school board shall be a body corporate under the name of the
“Waynesboro school board,” by which name it may sue and be sued,
contract and be contracted with, purchase, take, hold, lease, and convey
school property, both real and personal. The title to all public school
property within the corporate limits of the town shall be and the same
is hereby by operation of law transferred to and vested in the Waynes-
boro school board.

By mutual consent of the school board and the council of the town,
the title to the said school property may, by the said board, be trans-
ferred to and vested in the said town. |

The school board shall submit to the council annually or oftener an
estimate of what funds may be needed for the proper maintenance and
growth of the public schools of the town, and the council shall levy a
tax upon property subject to local taxation for the purpose of maintain-
ing the schools, to be collected along with other taxes by the treasurer
of the town and placed in a special account, subject to the order of the
school board. The State school fund shall be apportioned to the
Waynesboro school district separately from the county of Augusta,
and all such funds designated for the benefit of the schools therein
shall be paid by the disbursing officers of the State to the treasurer of
the said town and by such treasurer of the said town and kept in his
school account, to be paid out on the order of the said school board.

The said school board shall establish and maintain in the said
town a general system of public free schools in accordance with the re-
quirements of the Constitution and general education policy of the
Commonwealth, for the accomplishment of which purpose it shall have
the following powers and duties:

First. To explain, enforce and observe the school laws, and to
make rules for the government of the schools and for regulating the
conduct of pupils going to and returning therefrom.

Second. To determine the studies to be pursued, in accordance
with the regulations of the State Board of Education, the methods of
teaching, the government to be employed in the schools, and the length
of the school term.

Third. To employ teachers from a list or lists of eligibles to be
furnished by the division superintendent, and to dismiss them when
delinquent, inefficient, or in any wise unworthy of the position, but
no teacher shall be employed unless such teacher has the qualifications
prescribed by law.

Fourth. To suspend or expel pupils when the prosperity and effici-
ency of the schools make it necessary; to decide what children entering
the schools of the town are entitled by reason of the poverty of their
parents or guardians to receive text-books free of charge, and provide
for supplying them accordingly; to establish a high school or high
schools; to see that the census of children is taken within the proper
time and in the proper manner, as prescribed by law.

Fifth. To hold regular and special meetings of the school board
and to call meetings of the people of the town for consultation in re-
gard to the school interests thereof.

Sixth. To provide suitable school houses with proper furniture and
appliances and to care for, manage and control the school property of the
town. For these purposes it may lease, purchase, or build such school
houses according to the exigencies of the town and the means at its dis-
posal. The plans for all school houses shall be submitted to and approved
in writing by the division superintendent of schools, before the same is
contracted for or erected. All school buildings shall be maintained in a
safe and sanitary condition, with due regard for health and decency, and
for the lack of which the division superintendent shall condemn the same
and immediately give notice to the chairman of the said school board in
writing, and thereafter no school shall be held therein nor shall any
of the State or town fund be applied to support any such school houses,
until the division superintendent shall certify in writing to the town
school board that he is satisfied with the condition of such building, and
with the equipment pertaining thereto.

Seventh. To visit the public schools of the town from time to time
and to take care that they are conducted according to law and with the
utmost efficiency; to manage and control the school funds of the town,
and to provide for the pay of the teachers, and for any expenses at-
tending the administration of the public school system in the said
town, so far as the same is under the control or at the charge of the
school officials.

Eighth. To examine all claims against the school board and when
approved pay the same provided that a record of such approval shall
be made in the proceedings of the board and a warrant on the town
treasurer shall be drawn, signed by the chairman of the board and
countersigned by the clerk thereof, payable to the person or persons
entitled to receive such money and stating on its face the purpose or
service for which it is to be paid, and that such warrant is drawn in pur-
suance of an order entered by the board on the................ day of.........2.-----.

The said school board shall have power to acquire by condemnation
land within or without the town, whether dwellings, yards, gardens, or
orchards be invaded or not, for school purposes not to exceed fifteen
acres for any one school when necessary.

Tenth. And in addition to the foregoing enumerated powers and
duties the said school board shall exercise such other powers and per-
form such other duties not inconsistent herewith as are prescribed for
county school boards insofar as applicable, or imposed by the State
Board of Education.

The present members of the school board of the town of Waynes-
boro shall continue in office until their several terms expire; they shall
not be members of the school board of Augusta county, and the county
school board of Augusta county shall have no control over the school
property of the said town or the administration of the public school
system thereof.