CHAPTER 553

An Act to amend and reenact § 57-20, as amended, of the Code of Virginia,
relating to the quantity of land certain charitable or benevolent
associations may hold.

[H 611]
Approved March 31, 1964

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 57-20, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 57-20. The trustee for the use of any such association shall not
hereafter take or hold, at one time, any land exceeding * five acres; * and
the trustees of two or more bodies or societies may hold jointly, land not
exceeding five acres; provided that the local governing body of any county
or city may by ordinance authorize such trustee or trustees to take and
hold in such county or city not exceeding ten acres of land at any one
time; * except that a school league may, in addition to the * five 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 *
heretofore acquired are validated; except holdings which are in litigation
prior to or on July one, nineteen hundred sixty-four.

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.