[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Lexington as §§ 20-1 to 20-5, 20-8 and 20-9 of the 1958 Code (Ch. 20 of the 1970 Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
The Health Department shall conduct comprehensive sanitary and safety surveys of all public schools in the City. Such surveys shall include location, playground facilities and equipment, cafeteria inspections, toilet supplies, accident hazards, lighting, ventilation, heating, cleanliness and maintenance.
Semiannual reports of the conditions of the public schools in the City, together with the recommendations for improvement, shall be submitted, through the supervising principals, to the Board of Trustees for the Schools of the City.
[Added 7-12-1962]
All buses transporting pupils to or from any City school shall be subject to and operate in accordance with the same regulations governing the construction, design and operation of buses operating under the jurisdiction of the State Board of Education.
A. 
Composition; appointment and term of trustees.
[Amended 6-17-1971; 2-21-1974]
(1) 
The City Council shall, in the manner and for the term as provided by the laws of the state, appoint five Trustees who shall constitute the Board of Trustees for the Schools of the City of Lexington. The appointments are to be made on or before July 1. The Trustees so appointed shall continue in office until their successors are appointed and qualified. Within 30 days preceding the date on which the term of a Trustee is to expire by limitation, the City Council shall appoint a successor in office, whose term shall commence when the term of the predecessor shall have expired.
(2) 
The terms of office of the Trustees of the City School Board shall be for three years, except that the original appointment of one of the two additional Trustees as provided by Chapter 72 of the Acts of Assembly, 1971, shall be for a term of two years. The Trustees so appointed shall continue in office until their successors are appointed and qualified.
B. 
Filling vacancies. If a vacancy occurs in the office of Trustee on the Board of Trustees for the Schools of the City at any time during the term, the City Council shall fill such vacancy by appointing another person as Trustee for such part of the term as has not expired.
C. 
Rights, powers and duties generally. The Board of Trustees for the Schools of the City shall exercise all of the rights, duties and powers, with reference to the schools of the City, as are provided by the provisions of this Code and other ordinances of the City and the laws and statutes of the state.
D. 
Legal name. The legal name of the ultimate school authority for the separate school division of the City is the "Board of Trustees for the Schools of the City of Lexington."
E. 
Ratification of certain acts or transactions. All lawful transactions of every nature and description whatsoever which have been done or may hereafter be done by the Board of Trustees for the Schools of the City, in any name, which can be identified as the acts or transactions of such Board of Trustees, are hereby ratified, confirmed and approved, it being the purpose hereby to validate all transactions that may have been done in the name of the "Board of Trustees for the Schools of the Town of Lexington," "Lexington School Board," "School Board of Lexington," "Trustees of Lexington Schools," etc.
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Editor's Note: For state law as to local boards of school trustees in cities and towns, see Code of Virginia, Title 22.1