Chap. 246.—An ACT to repeal Sections 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 and 31 of
Chapter 171 of the Acts of Assembly of 1899-1900, in effect January 22, 1900,
which chapter provided a new charter for the town of Abingdon in the
county of Washington, the sections having been added to the chapter by
Chapter 408 of the Acts of Assembly of 1926, approved March 24, 1926, to
create the Central School District for the town of Abingdon; to prescribe
conditions under which such repeal shall be effective; and, in the event such
repeal becomes effective, to abolish such Central School District and its
board of trustees, and to provide that the town of Abingdon shall then become
a special school district for representation on the county school board, with
one member on such board. [H 510]

Approved March 13, 1948

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. Section 1. That sections twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-
six, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty and thirty-one
of chapter one hundred seventy-one of the Acts of Assembly of
eighteen hundred ninety-nine-nineteen hundred, approved January
twenty-two, nineteen hundred, which sections were added to the
chapter by chapter four hundred eight of the Acts of Assembly of
nineteen hundred twenty-six, approved March twenty-four, nineteen
hundred twenty-six, are hereby repealed. Subject to the conditions
set out in section two hereof, the Central School District of Wash-
ington county is abolished, the territory embraced within the cor-
porate limits of the town of Abingdon shall constitute a part of the
Abingdon School District, which embraces the Abingdon Magis-
terial District and the term of office of the members of the Board of
Trustees of Central School District are terminated as of the date
on which the abolition of said school district becomes effective as
hereinafter provided.

Prior to the abolition of Central Schoo! District as provided
herein the Board of Trustees of the district and the town council
of the town of Abingdon shall provide for the disposition of the
real and personal property, if any, of the Central School District and
the Board of Trustees of such District, and for the payment of
any outstanding obligations of the district and of the Board of
Trustees thereof. The authority and power necessary and proper to
accomplish this purpose is hereby conferred and granted.

Section 2. The foregoing provisions of this act shall not be-
come effective unless and tntil (a) the School Board of Central
School District and (b) the Town Council of the town of Abingdon
shall have approved the abolition of said district in the manner
hereinafter set out.

If the School Board of the Central School District deem it
advisable and expedient to abolish the district, it shall so declare by
a resolution setting forth the reasons for desiring to abolish the
same, which resolution shall be duly recorded in the minutes of
the meeting of the Board, and the Central School Board shall
certify a copy of the resolution to the Town Council of the town of
Abingdon. Before acting on the resolution of the Board the Town
Council of Abingdon shall first publish the same once a week
for four successive weeks in some newspaper of general circulation
in the town of Abingdon, together with a notice of a special meeting
of the Town Council of the town of Abingdon to consider the
abolition of the Central School District, which notice shall set forth
the time and place the council will consider the question of the
abolition of the district, and shall state that at such meeting any
citizen may appear and state his views. If at such meeting, or
at any adjournment thereof, at least four-fifths of the members of
the Council in office are in favor of abolishing the Central School
District a resolution to that effect shall be prepared and adopted
by a four-fifths vote as herein provided, and the resolution shall
be duly recorded in the minutes of the meeting, which resolution
shall state the day and hour on which the district shall be abolished.
On the day so fixed by the Council the special school district shall
be abolished, and the provisions of the first section of this act
shall be and thereafter remain in full force and effect.

Section 3. The repealing provisions of this act shall in no way
affect the right of the town of Abingdon to have representation
on the County School Board of Washington County; and in event
the Central School District is abolished as herein provided for the
purpose of being operated as a separate school district under the
town school board of three members, that thereupon the territory
embraced within the then present corporate limits of Abingdon is
hereby constituted a special school district for the purpose of
representation on the County School Board of Washington County.
The Town Council shall then appoint a resident of the town of
Abingdon, Virginia, as a trustee of the special district, which
trustee shall be a member of the County School Board and entitled
to serve as such. The term of office of the trustee shall be for a
term of two years, and the trustee shall hold office thereafter until
his successor is appointed and qualified.