CHAPTER 66

An Act to amend and reenact § 22-5, as amended, of the Code of Virginia,
relating to minimum school terms. a
[H 12]

Approved September 29, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 22-5, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended and re-
enacted as follows:

§ 22-5. Minimum term.—The school board of each county and city
in the State is empowered * to maintain the public free schools of such
county and city for a period of at least nine months or one hundred and
eighty teaching days in each school year; provided, however, * that if the
length of the term of any school be reduced *, the amount paid by the State
shall, unless otherwise provided by law, be reduced in the same proportion
as the length of the term has been reduced from nine months.