Chap. 17,—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3 of Chapter 181 of the Acts
of Assembly of 1932, approved March 22, 1932, the act and section relating to
school indebtedness and levies for public free schools in Washington SBS

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Approved March 29, 1945

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virgina, as follows:

1. That section three of chapter one hundred eighty-one of the
Acts of Assembly of nineteen hundred thirty-two, approved March
twenty-two, nineteen hundred thirty-two, be amended and re-enacted,
as follows:

3. The board of supervisors of the county is hereby prohibited
from appropriating any money out of the general county levy to the
support and maintenance of the schools in any school district or in said
county, or to the construction or maintenance of any roads in said county,
or in any district thereof. The board of supervisors shall not lay a levy
or tax for district school purposes, except for the purpose of paying
present existing school district indebtedness and for the future capital
expenditures only. Said board of supervisors may lay the levy for county
school purposes at a rate not in excess of two dollars on the hundred dol-
lars of the assessed valuation of property. If the board of supervisors
refuse to lay such a levy as is recommended and requested by the county
school board not to exceed two dollars on the hundred dollars, then, on a
petition of not less than fifty tax payers of the county, qualified to vote
and requesting the same, the circuit court of the county or the judge
thereof in vacation, may, in its or his discretion, order an election by the
people of the county to be held during the month of June to determine
whether such levy shall or shall not be fixed.

2. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.