CHAPTER 48

An Act to amend and reenact § 22-48.1, as amended, of the Code of
Virginia, relating to dissolution of special town school districts.

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Approved February 19, 1960

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 22-43.1, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 22-48.1. The special school districts for the town of Lexington of
Rockbridge county and the town of Bedford of Bedford county and the
town of Fries of Grayson county, and the separate school district of the
town of Herndon of Fairfax county, and the town of Colonial Beach of
Westmoreland county, and any other such separate, special or special
town school district, heretofore or hereafter created, by or under the pro-
visions of the preceding section, whether for the purpose of representa-
tion on the county school board or for the purpose of being operated as a
separate school district as above, may, by ordinance of the town council,
or other governing body, and by and with the approval of the county
school board and the State Board, be dissolved as a separate school dis-
trict, and, upon dissolution, such separate school district shall be and
become a part of the county school unit and shall be managed, operated
and controlled by the county school board as a part of such unit, and all
school property, real and personal, the title to which is held by the school
board of any such separate, special or special town school district shall
vest by operation of law in the county school board for school purposes;
provided that in the event of the dissolution of the special town school
district of the town of Bedford, such dissolution shall be deemed a disso-
lution of the district for operation as a special school district only, and the
town shall remain a special school district for representation and shall have
one representative on the county school board, to be appointed by the
council of the town; and in the event of such dissolution the school board
of the county may with the approval of the governing body of the county
pay to the town the fair value of such school property. Such ordinance
shall state what disposition is to be made of any balance in the school
funds of any such separate, special or special town school district at the
time of its dissolution and shall provide for disposition of any outstanding
bonded indebtedness of such school district.

2. Anemergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.