CHAPTER 112

An Act to amend Chapter IV of Chapter 157 of the Acts of Assembly of
1908, approved March 10, 1908, which provided a charter for the
City of Portsmouth, by adding a section numbered 58-a, to prescribe
certain procedures and requirements with regard to school funds.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That Chapter IV of Chapter 157 of the Acts of Assembly of 1908,
approved March 10, 1908, be amended by adding a section numbered 53-a,

as follows:
CHAPTER IV

§ 53-a. School funds.—The school board of the city shall on the
first days of the months of January and July in each year transmit to the
council and to the city manager a detailed statement of all money received
by said board or placed to its credit and all moneys disbursed by said
board during the preceding six months, whether such moneys shall have
been appropriated by the council or received from any other source for
the purpose of public education. Separate accounts shall be kept by the
said board of the moneys appropriated by the council, and moneys received
from other sources, and every such statement shall show the balance of
each cfass of funds on hand or under control of said board as of the date

ereof.

The said school board shall prepare and submit to the city manager,
at the time requested by him, for his information in making up the budget
a detailed estimate of the amount of money required for the conduct of
the public schools of the city for the ensuing fiscal year, with an estimate
of the amount of all funds which will probably be received by said board
for the purpose of public education from sources other than appropriation
by the council.

No money shall be paid out or become available to be paid out for
any contemplated expenditure unless and until there has first been made
an appropriation for such contemplated expenditure by the council.

Should any moneys, other than capital items, derived from sources
other than State funds be unexpended in any year and thus become avail-
able for use the next year pursuant to § 22-138 of the Code of Virginia,
the council may provide in the budget that the city’s share of the appro-
priation for the next ensuing year shall be decreased in a like amount.

An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.