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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>66264</law_id><section_number>22.1-100</section_number><catch_line>Unexpended school and educational funds; capital reserve fund permitted</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>22.1-100.1</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="22.1">Education</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="8">Public School Funds</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1">State and Local Funds</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> All sums of money derived from the Commonwealth which are unexpended in any year in any school division shall revert to the fund of the Commonwealth from which derived unless the <span class="dictionary">Board</span> of Education directs otherwise. Except as otherwise provided in subsection B, all sums derived from local funds unexpended in any year shall remain a part of the funds of the <span class="dictionary">governing body</span> appropriating the funds for use the next year, but no local funds shall be subject to redivision outside of the locality in which they were raised. <a id="paragraph-240659" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/22.1-100/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> Any <span class="dictionary">school board</span> may, with the concurrence of the <span class="dictionary">local governing body</span>, establish a capital reserve fund as a savings account into which it exclusively deposits the unexpended local operating funds described in subsection A for future school division capital expenditures at no additional cost to local taxpayers, subject to the following conditions: <a id="paragraph-240660" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/22.1-100/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> Any deposit into such fund shall be designated at the time of deposit for a specific capital project named by the <span class="dictionary">school board</span>; <a id="paragraph-240661" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/22.1-100/#B1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> No deposit into such fund shall be withdrawn or used for any purpose other than the capital project designated pursuant to subdivision 1; and <a id="paragraph-240662" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/22.1-100/#B2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B3" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> The <span class="dictionary">school board</span> may make withdrawals from such fund at any time, and no such withdrawal shall be encumbered by any deadlines or other timelines or time-based restrictions. <a id="paragraph-240663" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/22.1-100/#B3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 22-138; 1956, Ex. Sess., c. 67; 1980, c. 559; 2024, c. 294.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
