CHAPTER 273

An Act to amend and reenact § 22-149 of the Code of Virginia, as
amended, relating to condemnation of land for school purposes.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 22-149 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 22-149. The school board may condemn for school purposes land
or other property, or any interest or estate therein, including dwellings,
yards, gardens or orchards. If, in the judgment of the school board the
public interest demands that particular land or any interest therein be
acquired for school purposes, the school board shall cause the desired
parcel of land to be surveyed by a county surveyor, city engineer or other
competent surveyor and a plat of the same to be filed, together with a
general statement of the case, with the clerk of the court in which pro-
ceedings to condemn such land will be instituted, and, thereupoh, on appli-
cation of the school board, the same proceedings shall be had as are pre-
scribed by the laws relating to the exercise of the right of eminent domain,
insofar as they are applicable and not inconsistent herewith; and to deter-
mine the suitability of the land for school purposes, such school board
shall have the right of entry and under the same conditions as the State
Highway Commissioner under § 88-57.2; but such land or interest so con-
demned shall not exceed thirty acres for any one school.