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2002 SESSION
025780620Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 57-20 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 57-20. Quantity of land benevolent and other associations may hold.
The Except as otherwise provided in this section, the trustee for the use of
any benevolent or other association referred to in § 57-19 shall not hereafter
take or hold, at one time, any land exceeding five acres; and the trustees of
two or more bodies or societies may hold jointly, land not exceeding five
acres; provided that the local governing body of any county or city may by
ordinance authorize such trustee or trustees to take and hold in such county or
city not exceeding ten acres of land at any one time. However, a school league
may, in addition to the five acres held by such trustees, hold not exceeding
ten acres as a home for the principal of the school for which the league is
named. All such holdings heretofore acquired are validated; except holdings
which are in litigation prior to or on July 1, 1964.
Any lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks or other groups organized for rural community civic purposes or improvement of farm life or operations of like purposes and not for profit may hold not exceeding thirty-five acres of land.
Any association or post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Legion, Spanish War Veterans, Disabled American Veterans or any similar association of veterans of the armed forces of the United States chartered by an act of Congress may hold not exceeding seventy-five acres of land. Notwithstanding any other provision of law conveyances of land made prior to June 29, 1948, to any such post or association of veterans is validated provided the same is not in excess of seventy-five acres.