CHAPTER 329

An Act to amend and reenact § 15-686, as amended, of the Code of
Virginia, relating to real estate for certain county buildings. CH 665]

Approved March 10, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 15-686, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows: .

§ 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 super-
visors 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. The requirement of two acres shall not apply
as to any tract consisting of at least one acre which may be conveyed to
a county by a city for use as a courthouse and clerk’s office.