CHAPTER 534

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered
15-692.8, to provide for acquisition of property for certain educational
purposes by counties, cities and towns. rH 586)

Approved March 31, 1960

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding a section numbered
15-692.3 as follows:

§ 15-692.3. Any county, city or town or any combination thereof
acting jointly may acquire by gift, purchase, condemnation in the manner
provided by but not subject to the acreage limitation of § 22-149, or
otherwise, real property and any improvements that may be located there-
on within the congressional district wherein such county, city or town is
located and construct buildings thereon to be used for educational pur-
poses; provided, however, that for the purposes of this section the powers
of condemnation hereby granted shall be subject to the provisions of
§ 25-233 of the Code of Virginia to the same extent as though such county,
city or town were a corporation possessing the power of eminent domain.
Such property shall be under the control of the local school board pro-
vided that in the case of joint action by two or more counties, cities
or towns or combinations thereof, control of such property shall be under
a board chosen in the manner and for the term provided in § 22-100.3.
Property so acquired may be used by such political subdivisions for edu-
cational purposes or may be leased on such terms as may be agreed upon
to any State supported institution of higher learning to provide for edu-
cation beyond high school of residents in the general region of such
political subdivisions. Any such real property may, with the approval of
the governing body of each such participating political subdivision, be
conveyed by the board of control to any such institution of higher learn-
ing upon such terms and conditions as shall be agreed upon by such gov-
erning bodies, and the governing body of the institution, and approved by
the Governor.