No school board shall expend or contract to expend, in any fiscal year, any sum of money in excess of the funds available for school purposes for that fiscal year without the consent of the governing body or bodies appropriating funds to the school board. Any member of a school board or any division superintendent or other school officer violating, causing to be violated or voting to violate any provision of this section shall be guilty of malfeasance in office.
Va. Code Ann. § 22.1-91
Limitation on expenditures; penalty
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Jackson v. Hartig (2007)
Most recently applied in 543 F. App'x 343 - Alexander Harris v. Powhatan County School Board (October 2013)
Code 1950, § 22-120; 1980, c. 559.
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Official source: Virginia Law Portal (LIS). Reproduced from public-domain Virginia statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.