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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>354262</law_id><section_number>22.1-158</section_number><catch_line>Provisions for payment</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2026/" slug="2026" current="TRUE" last_updated="2026-08-02">2026</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="60" identifier="22.1">Education</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="10" identifier="10">Literary Fund</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The governing body of any county, city or town, if the town constitutes the school division, in which the <span class="dictionary">school board</span> has borrowed money from the Literary Fund shall include in its levies and appropriate to the <span class="dictionary">school board</span> a fund sufficient to meet the liabilities of the <span class="dictionary">school board</span> on such loan for the construction or renovation or enlarging of any school building, regardless of whether the title to the site is held by the <span class="dictionary">school board</span>, the <span class="dictionary">local governing body</span> or by a third <span class="dictionary">party</span> with whom the <span class="dictionary">school board</span> has entered into a <span class="dictionary">long-term lease</span>. The governing body of any county in which the <span class="dictionary">school board</span> thereof has borrowed money from the Literary Fund for construction of school facilities located in a town in such county constituting a separate school division shall have authority to include in its levies for such town, a <span class="dictionary">levy</span> sufficient to meet the liabilities of the <span class="dictionary">school board</span> on such loan and shall <span class="dictionary">levy</span> a separate tax in the rest of the county to meet its liabilities on any <span class="dictionary">contract</span> for school facilities constructed outside such town. In the event that such <span class="dictionary">school board</span> shall fail to pay any installment of interest or principal promptly, upon notice in writing to that effect from the State Treasurer, the county, city or town treasurer shall pay to the State Treasurer any such past-due installment of interest or principal, out of the funds in his hands belonging to such county, city or town. The failure of such governing body to provide for the payment of such loan or the interest thereon when and as due shall be deemed a cause for removal of the members thereof from office on <span class="dictionary">motion</span> before the <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">court</span> having <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> in such county, city or town, instituted by the attorney for the Commonwealth of such county or city or by the <span class="dictionary">Attorney General</span> where the attorney for the Commonwealth refuses or neglects to act after demand is made on him to proceed.</p><p>For the purposes of this section, &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">long-term lease</span>&#x201D; means a lease for a term of twenty-five years or more.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 22-113; 1976, c. 334; 1980, c. 559; 1998, c. 719.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
