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2021 SPECIAL SESSION I
21102696DBe 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.
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 10 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 10 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 that 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 35 acres of land. All such
holdings heretofore acquired are validated; except holdings which that are in litigation on or
before July 1, 2002.
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 Armed Forces of the United
States chartered by an act of Congress may hold not exceeding seventy-five 300 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 75
acres.