An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
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Volume | 1938 |
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Law Number | 318 |
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Law Body
Chap. 318.—-An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 653 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, as heretofore amended, relating to school trustee electoral boards,
local school boards, and school districts. [H B 470]
Approved March 29, 1938
1. Beit enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
six hundred and fifty-three of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore
amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
Section 653. In each county there shall be a board, to be known
as the school trustee electoral board, which shall be composed of three
resident qualified voters, who are not county or State officers, to be
appointed by the circuit court of each county, or.the judge thereof in
vacation, within thirty days after the first day of July, nineteen hundred
and thirty, and every four years thereafter. The said members of
the trustee electoral board shall each receive a per diem of two dollars
for each day actually employed, to be paid out of the county school
fund. Any vacancy occurring within the term of the said appointees
shall be filled by the circuit court, or by the judge thereof in vacation,
within thirty days thereafter. The county school board shall consist
of one member appointed from each school district in the county by the
school trustee electoral board, provided in towns constituting separate
school districts and operated by a school board of three members, one
of the said members shall be designated annually by the town board
as a member of the county school board. The members of the county
school board from the several districts shall have no organization and
duties except such as may be assigned to them by the school board as
a whole. Before any appointment is made by the electoral board it
shall give notice, by publication for two. successive weeks, in a news-
paper having general circulation in such county of the time and place
of any meeting for the purpose of appointing the members of the
county school board. : oe |
. The members so appointed shall constitute the county school board.
and every such board is hereby declared a body corporate, under the
style of the county school board of -....t.eeeccececceeeceee county, and may,
in its corporate capacity, sue or be sued, contract or be contracted
with and, in general, is vested with all the powers, and charged with
all the duties, obligations and responsibilities imposed upon such board
as such by law. The members of the county school board shall be
appointed within sixty days prior to July first, nineteen hundred and
twenty-eight, and within sixty days prior to July first every four years
thereafter. They shall take office on July first following their appoint-
ment, and shall hold office for a term of four years, and thereafter until
their successors have been appointed and have qualified. Any vacancy
in the county school board shall be filled by appointment by the trustee
electoral board. The present trustee electoral boards and county
school boards now in office, shall continue to hold office until their
successors have been appointed and qualified. All of such school
trustees shall qualify before the county clerk, by taking the oath pre-
scribed for State officers. The county school board may in its discre-
tion provide for a per diem not exceeding five dollars per day and
mileage not to exceed five cents per mile for each mile of travel on
each day of such attendance by most direct route in going to and re-
turning from the place of meeting for each member for each day he is
in attendance upon meetings of the board, not to exceed thirty days in
any one year, such per diem to be paid as other school expenses are
paid. Provided that in counties, adjacent to cities having, according
to the last United States census, a population of one hundred thousand
or more, and in counties having a density of population of more than
five hundred per square mile the county school board may pay each
of its members an annual salary. of three hundred dollars, payable in
equal monthly installments; and provided further, that in cities having
a population of not less than eighteen thousand nor more than twenty-
three thousand according to the latest United States census, the school
board may provide and pay a per diem of not exceeding ten dollars
to each member for each day he is in attendance upon meetings of the
board, not to exceed twenty-four days in any one year.
For the purpose of representation each magisterial district shall,
except where otherwise provided by law, constitute a separate school
district, but for all other school purposes, taxation, management, control,
and operation, the county shall be the unit, and the school affairs of
such county managed as if the county constituted but one school
district; Provided, however, nothing in this section shall be construed
to prohibit the levying of a district tax to provide interest and sinking
fund for a district bond issue as provided in section six hundred and
seventy-three, or for the levying of a district tax on recommendation
of the county school board to pay existing district indebtedness. All
special school districts and special town school districts except the spe-
cial school district for the town of Leesburg of Loudoun county and
of Lexington of Rockbridge county and the town of Bedford of
Bedford county which are hereby preserved, are hereby expressly
abolished, except special town school districts which are located in
more than one county, which last mentioned districts are hereby ex-
pressly retained as they exist at the present time; provided, however,
that the town of Herndon, of Fairfax county, and the town of Colonial
Beach, of Westmoreland county, and incorporated towns having a
population of not less than one thousand inhabitants, according to the
last United States census, may, by ordinance of the town council and
by and with the approval of the State Board of Education, be con-
stituted separate school districts either for the purpose of representa-
tion on the county school board, or for the purpose of being operated
as a separate school district under a town school board of three mem-
bers, appointed by the town council. In the event that such a town
district be set up, to be operated by a board of three members, the mem-
bers of such board shall be appointed in accordance with section seven
hundred and eighty of the Code, providing for the appointment of
trustees in cities and of such members, one shall be designated by the
town school board as a member of the county school board and en-
titled to serve as a member of the said county board.
Nothing in this section, however, shall be construed to prohibit the
board of supervisors in the county of Sussex from continuing to levy
a district tax for the operation of the schools.
To such town school district operated by a school board of three
members the county school board shall require the county treasurer
to pay over to the town treasurer if and when properly bonded from
the amount derived from the county levy or any appropriation for
school purposes a sum equal to the pro rata amount from such levy or
appropriation derived from such town; and the county treasurer shall
also pay over to the town treasurer a proportionate amount of all
school funds determined by the ratio of the average daily attendance
for the preceding school year in the town district and in the county.
Where a special town school district is located partly in each of two
adjoining counties and operated by a town school board created or
constituted by the charter of such town, it shall be the duty of the
county treasurer of each of said counties to set up and keep separate
books and accounts showing the amount of county school taxes levied
upon property located in such parts of their respective counties as lie
within the corporate limits of said town, and showing also their collec-
tions on such levies, and the said county treasurers shall periodically
pay the amounts of said levies so collected by them, respectively, into
the treasury of said town, if and when the town treasurer shall be
properly bonded ; and the said county treasurers shall also promptly pay
into the town treasury the proper proportionate amount of all State
school funds except special State school funds, received by them, re-
spectively, for their said counties, in the proportion that the average
daily attendance at the schools in said town school district, by pupils
living in that part of such town school district which lies within said
counties, respectively, bears to the average daily attendance in the
entire counties, respectively, including the attendance at such town
district schools by pupils living in that part of said town school district
which lies in said counties, respectively, during the preceding school
year. It shall be the duty of the county school board of said counties,
respectively, to issue their vouchers in favor of the treasurer of said
town, for the moneys hereinabove directed to be paid into the town
treasury.
The provisions of this section shall not be construed to amend or
repeal the provisions of sections twenty-seven hundred and seventy-
three-n fifteen and twenty-seven hundred and seventy-three-n forty-
one of the Code of Virginia.