CHAPTER 264

An Act to amend and reenact § 15-686 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to courthouses, clerks’ offices and jails. CH 622}

Approved March 18, 1954
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

on That § 15-686 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
ollows:

§ 15-686. There shall be provided by the board of supervisors of
every county and the council for every city a courthouse, clerk’s office and
jail. The cost thereof and of the land on which they may be, and of keeping
the same in good order, shall be chargeable to the county or city. The fee
simple of the lands shall be in the county or city, and the supervisors of
the county or the council of the city may purchase so much land, as, with
what it has, will make two acres, whereof what may be necessary for the
purpose shall be occupied with the courthouse, clerk’s office and jail and
the residue planted with trees and kept as a place for the people of the
county or city to meet and confer together; provided, however, that any
portion of said lands owned by a county and located within a city or town,
and not actually occupied by the courthouse, clerk’s office or jail, may be
sold or exchanged and conveyed to the said city or town to be used for
street or other public purposes. Any such sale or exchange by the board
of supervisors of a county shall be made in accordance with the provisions
of § 15-692.

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