CHAPTER 454

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 57-20 of the Code of Virginia relating to
quantity of land which certain associations may hold; and to validate
certain holdings.

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Approved March 30, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

+4 That § 57-20 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
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§ 57-20. The trustee for the use of any such associations shall not
hereafter take or hold, at one time, any land exceeding two acres, nor for
any other use than as a place of meeting for such association, and for the
education and maintenance of children charitably provided for by them;
provided that the local governing body of any county or city may by

ordinance authorize such trustee to take and hold in such county or city
not exceeding ten acres of land at any one time if such acreage is to be
exclusively, and is subsequently so devoted, to a place of meeting for such
association, or for the education and maintenance of children charitably
provided for by them; except that a school league may, in addition to the
two acres held by such trustees, hold not exceeding ten acres as a home
for the principal of the school for which the league is named. All such
holdings not exceeding four acres and heretofore acquired are validated.

Any association or post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, American
Legion, Spanish War Veterans, Disabled American Veterans or any
similar association of veterans of the armed forces of the United States
chartered by an act of Congress may hold not exceeding seventy-five acres
of land. Notwithstanding any other provision of law conveyances of land
made prior to June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred forty-eight, to any such
post or association of veterans is validated provided the same is not in
excess of seventy-five acres.