Chap. 152.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 582, as amended, of the Code
of Virginia, relating to portraits and works of art, so as to make special pro-
visions as to portraits and works of art presented to or acquired by the Supreme
Court of Appeals. [S B 28]

Approved March 9, 1942

I. Beit enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
five hundred and eighty-two, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, be
amended and re-enacted, as follows:

Section 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 pro-
posed 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; provided that the foregoing pro-
visions shall not apply to any portrait, tablet or work of art portraying,
or pertaining to, a former, present or future member of the Supreme
Court of Appeals of Virginia, heretofore or hereafter presented to, or
acquired by, said court, and displayed in that part of any building or
buildings under the direct supervision and jurisdiction of said court. _

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 pro-
perty belonging to the State, and no construction or erection of any bridge,
arch, gate, fence, or other structure or fixture intended primarily for or-
namental 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 extend over any property belonging to the State,
shall be begun, unless the design and proposed location thereof shall
have been submitted to the commission and its artistic character approved
in writing by the majority of the members of the commission, or unless
said commission shall have failed to disapprove in writing the design with-
in 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 structure
approved in writing by it, or unless said commission shall have failed to
disapprove in writing the design within thirty days after its submission.