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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>57012</law_id><section_number>22.1-125</section_number><catch_line>Title to property vested in school board; exception; extent of school board&amp;#8217;s authority</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>15.2-1800.1</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="9">School Property</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1">General Provisions</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> The title to all school property, both real and personal, within a school division shall be vested in the <span class="dictionary">school board</span>, except that by mutual consent of the <span class="dictionary">school board</span> of a school division composed solely of part or all of a city and the <span class="dictionary">governing body</span> of the city, the title to property may vest in the city. <a id="paragraph-208827" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/22.1-125/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> The official care and authority of a <span class="dictionary">school board</span> shall cover all territory included in the geographical boundaries of the school division and all school property located without and contiguous to the boundaries of such school division when the title to such property is vested either in the <span class="dictionary">school board</span> or a city; provided, however, that school property lying without the corporate limits of a city but not adjacent thereto on January 1, 1968, shall be subject to the official care and authority of the <span class="dictionary">school board</span> of such city or the city. <a id="paragraph-208828" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/22.1-125/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7;&#xA7; 22-94, 22-95; 1968, c. 702; 1972, c. 662; 1980, c. 559.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
