Chap. 187.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 717 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended, relating to the display of flags at public schools, so as to require
each public school in the Commonwealth to be provided with a flag of the
United States and necessary equipment; to provide for the payment thereof; to
require instruction concerning the history of the flag and the principles for
which it stands including the Bill of Rights; and to eliminate reference to the
flag of Virginia. [S B 106]

Approved March 11, 1942 '

1. Beit enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
seven hundred and seventeen of the Code of Virginia, as amended, be
amended and re-enacted, as follows:

Section 717. Each public school in the counties, cities and towns
of the Commonwealth shall be provided with a flag of the United States
of America, of a size not less than four by six feet, together with a flag-
staff or pole therefor, and the ropes, pulleys and other equipment needed
for flying such flag. The said flag pole may be either attached to the
building, or the flag may be flown from a pole, located within the school
grounds. The pole, flag and necessary equipment for flying the same shall
be paid for, maintained and replaged out of funds appropriated for this
purpose by the governing bodies of the several counties and cities and
such towns as constitute a separate school district. It shall be the duty
of each teacher in a school employing one teacher only, or the principal
of each school employing more than one teacher, to see that said flag is
flown from said flagstaff or pole during school hours of each day in the
year, from the hour of opening until the hour of closing the school under
his or her charge, except upon such days as injury to the flag would be
likely to result from flying it by reason of inclement weather conditions.
It shall also be the duty of each teacher in every school thoroughly to in-
struct every pupil coming under his charge as to the history of the flag
and the principles for which it stands, specifically including the Bill of
Rights.