22.1-125 - Title to property vested in school board; exception; extent of school board's authority. - Virginia Statutes

§ 22.1-125. Title to property vested in school board; exception; extent ofschool board's authority.

A. The title to all school property, both real and personal, within a schooldivision shall be vested in the school board, except that by mutual consentof the school board of a school division composed solely of part or all of acity and the governing body of the city, the title to property may vest inthe city.

B. The official care and authority of a school board shall cover allterritory included in the geographical boundaries of the school division andall school property located without and contiguous to the boundaries of suchschool division when the title to such property is vested either in theschool board or a city; provided, however, that school property lying withoutthe corporate limits of a city but not adjacent thereto on January 1, 1968,shall be subject to the official care and authority of the school board ofsuch city or the city.

(Code 1950, §§ 22-94, 22-95; 1968, c. 702; 1972, c. 662; 1980, c. 559.)