CHAPTER 223

An Act to amend and reenact § 9-11 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to approval and display of certain works of art. CH 499]

Approved March 38, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
i " That § 9-11 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
ollows:

§ 9-11. (1) Works of art——Hereafter no work of art shall become
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the property of the State by purchase, gift or otherwise, unless such work
of art or a design thereof, together with its proposed location, shall have
been submitted to and approved by the Governor acting with the advice
and counsel of the Art Commission; nor shall any work of art, until so
submitted and approved, be contracted for, placed in or upon or allowed
to extend over any property belonging to the State. No existing work of
art owned by the State shall be removed, relocated or altered in any way
without submission to the Governor; provided, that the foregoing pro-
visions shall not apply to any portrait, tablet or work of art portraying,
or pertaining to, a member or former member of the Supreme Court of
Appeals, presented to, or acquired by, the Court and displayed in that
part of any building or buildings under the direct supervision and juris-
diction of the Court.

(2) Structures and fixtures—No construction or erection of any
building of any nature, which is to be paid for, either wholly or in part,
by appropriation from the State treasury, or which is to be placed on or
allowed to extend over any property belonging to the State, and no
construction or erection of any bridge, arch, gate, fence, or other structure
or fixture intended primarily for ornamental or memorial purposes, and
which is to be paid for, either wholly or in part by appropriation from the
State treasury, or which is to be placed on or allowed to extend over any
property belonging to the State, shall be begun. unless the design and pro-
posed location thereof shall have been submitted to the Governor and
its artistic character approved in writing by him acting with the advice
and counsel of the Art Commission, unless the Governor shall have failed
to disapprove in writing the design within thirty days after its submis-
sion. Furthermore, no existing structure of the kinds named and de-
scribed in this paragraph, owned by the State, shall be removed or
remodeled without submission to the Governor and the artistic character
of the proposed new structure approved in writing by him acting with
the advice and counsel of the Art Commission, unless the Governor shall
have failed to disapprove in writing the design within thirty days after
its submission. .

(8) No work of art not owned by the State shall be placed in or
upon or allowed to extend over any property belonging to the State for
a period of more than two years unless such work of art or a design
thereof shall have been submitted to and approved by the Governor
acting with the advice and counsel of the Art Commission, provided that
nage d in this section shall have application to the Virginia Museum of

ine Arts.