CHAPTER 293

AN ACT to amend and reenact §§ 22-152, 22-153, and 22-154 of
the Code of 1950, relating to approval of plans for school
buildings by State Superintendent of Public Instruction,
and space and light requirements of such alata

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Approved April 4, 1950

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 22-152, 22-153 and 22-154 of the Code of 1950 be
amended and reenacted, as follows:

§ 22-152. Plans for buildings to be approved by division
and State Superintendent.—No public schoolhouse shall be con-
tracted for, erected, or added to, until the plans and specifica-
tions therefor shall have been submitted to and approved in
writing by the division superintendent of schools and the plans
and specifications for such building or any addition have been
approved by the Superintendent of Public Instruction.

§ 22-153. Minimum floor and air space *.—No plans for
the erection of any public school building or addition thereto
shall be approved, unless the same shall provide at least fifteen
square feet of floor space and a minimum of one hundred and
seventy-five cubic feet of air space for each pupil to be accom-
modated in each study or recitation room therein, and no such
plans shall be approved unless provision is made therein for
assuring at least thirty cubic feet of pure air every minute per
pupil, and the facilities for exhausting the foul and vitiated air
therein shall be positive and independent of atmospheric
changes; provided, however, that a system of ventilation requir-
ing less than thirty cubic feet of pure air per minute per pupil,
but in no case less than three air changes per hour, may be
adopted by the State Board in any single case, subject to the
approval of the State Board of Health. *
§ 22-154. Light—All public schoolhouses shall provide for
* ample light—natural or artificial—for pupils, and the total
light area for admission of natural light must be at least
twenty per centum of the floor space.