CHAPTER 369

An Act to amend and reenact § 4 of Chapter 716 of the Acts of Assembly
of 1952, approved April 8, 1952, the section relating to funds for
local public school construction.

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Approved April 2, 1954
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 4 of Chapter 716 of the Acts of Assembly of 1952, approved
April 8, 1952, be amended and reenacted, as follows:
fem JS Section 4. For Local Public School Construction

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For allocation by the State Board of Education
among the counties and cities of the Common-
wealth for aid in the construction of public
school buildings subject, except as stated be-
low, to the conditions set forth in Chapter 14,
Acts of Assembly of 1950................... «s ccesasauesenssssnisseessesnee: $15,000,000 $15,000,000

It is provided, notwithstanding contrary pro-
visions of the act cited above, that:

a. In lieu of the actual enrollment on the
dates stated in paragraph 1, section 2, actual
enrollment on December 1, 1951, shall be used
as the basis of allocation for the first year
appropriation, and actual enrollment on De-
cember 1, 1952, shall be used as the basis of
the allocation for the second year appropria-
tion for this item; provided, however, that
when in the interval bctween October, 1951,
and January 1, 1952, a decree of an annexation
court was affirmed by the Supreme Court of
Appeals and such decision provided that pupils
in the annexed area would attend the schools
of the annexing city, the State Board of Edu-
cation shall provide for and transfer to such
city its equitable portion of such allocation on
the basis of the number of pupils so trans-
ferred to the schools of the annexing city.

b. In lieu of the rate stated in paragraph 1,
section 3(b), the tax levy required shall be
equivalent to eighty cents per one hundred
dollars of true valuation of locally-taxed
wealth as determined by the State Department
of Taxation and used as a basis for distributing
State aid to public schools during the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1952.

c. In lieu of the dates stated in paragraph 1,
section 3(b), the school year used in determin-
ing the amount expended or being expended
from local sources shall be 1952-1953 for the
first year appropriation and 1953-1954 for the
second year appropriation from this item.

d. In lieu of the actual enrollment on the
dates stated in paragraph 1, section 3(c),
actual enrollment on December 1, 1952, shall
be used as the basis of allocation for the first
year appropriation, and actual enrollment on
December 1, 1953, shall be used as the basis
of allocation for the second year appropriation
from this item.

It is provided further that this appropria-
tion shall not be construed as establishing a
policy of State grants to aid localities in meet-
ing public school construction needs or as im-
posing upon the General Assembly any obliga-
tion, implied or other, beyond the limits herein
set out.
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ere is hereby reappropriated to the State
Board of Education the unexpended balance,
estimated at $15,000,000, at the close of busi-
ness on June 30, 1952, in the appropriation
provided by Chapter 14, Acts of Assembly of
1950. This appropriation shall be expended
by the State Board of Education in accordance
with the allocations made pursuant to the cited
act.

An emergency exists and this act is in force |