Chap. 508.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to in-
corporate the Medical College of Virginia, approved Fepruary 25, 1854,
as amended by an act approved January 22, 1879, and also by an act
approved February 2, 1898. (H. B. 488.)

Approved March 23, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the act entitled an act to incorporate the Medical College of Vir-
ginia, approved February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and
fifty-four, as amended by an act approved January twenty-
second, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and also by an act
approved February second, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows, namely:

Section 1. The Medical College of Virginia shall be con-
tinued, and the visitors thereof and their successors shall be
and remain a corporation under the name and style of the “‘Medi-
cal College of Virginia.” The board of visitors shall consist of
nineteen members, at least seven of whom shall be residents of
the city of Richmond, and the remaining twelve, as far as prac-
ticable, residents of the five grand divisions of the State.

The said corporation is formed for the purpose of establish-
ing and maintaining a medical college and such other institu-
tions connected therewith, to teach medicine, dentistry, pharmacy
and all the arts and sciences and branches of learning relating
to or connected with any of these subjects, and in connection
therewith it shall have power to maintain and conduct hospitals,
infirmaries and dispensaries and such other necessary kindred
institutions as may, in the opinion of the board, be proper for
the successful operation of said Medical College of Virginia.

The said corporation is hereby vested with all the rights,
powers and privileges conferred upon, and subject to all the
provisions relating to, similar corporations under the existing
laws of this State so far as the same are applicable.

Sec. 2. There shall be, and is hereby, vested in said corpo-
ration all the property, real, personal and mixed, now belonging
to the Medical College of Virginia, including the property
acquired by said Medical College of Virginia and conveyed to
it by the late corporation known as the University College of
Medicine and that known as the Memorial Hospital, subject,
however, to such liens as exist on any of the property so held
and conveyed to said Medical College of Virginia; and the amal-
gamation between the late University College of Medicine and
the said Medical College of Virginia, which took place on the
first day of July, nineteen hundred and thirteen, is hereby vali-
dated, ratified and approved.

The said Medical College of Virginia may take, hold and
enjoy all the real estate and personal property now held or used
by it and such as may be necessary or convenient for the pur-
poses for which it was incorporated.
Every gift, grant, devise or bequest heretofore or hereafter
made to said Medical College of Virginia, or to the University
College of Medicine, or to the Memorial Hospital, or for its
hospitals, infirmaries and dispensaries for charitable, educa-
tional or humanitarian purposes, by whatsoever name or de-
scription the said college or its hospitals, infirmaries or dispen-
saries may be designated by the donor, the said corporation may,
and it is hereby authorized and empowered to receive, take hold
and enjoy the same for the uses and purposes designated by the
donor if he or she shall so designate, or for the general purposes
of the said corporation when the gift, grant, devise or bequest
is not so designated, whether the same be given directly to the
said corporation or to the trustees for its benefit.

Sec. 3. The principal office of the said corporation shall be
located, and all the meetings of the board of visitors held, as far
as practicable, in the city of Richmond, Virginia. The board of
visitors shall fix the date for the annual meetings, and may hold
such special meetings as in the opinion of the chairman or the
executive committee may be deemed necessary. Due notice of
all meetings shall be given in writing to every visitor. The
members of the board shall receive no compensation for their
services, but those not residing in Richmond shall be paid their
necessary expenses for attending the meetings of the board.
Ten members shall constitute a quorum, and whenever a vacancy
shall occur in the said board by death, resignation or other-
wise, the governor shall fill the same, selecting the visitor, if
practicable from the section of the State in which the vacancy
occurred.

The board of visitors shall elect a chairman and vice-chair-
man, a secretary and a treasurer, both of which offices may be
held by the same person; and a president of the corporation if
they deem one necessary, prescribe his duties and fix his com-
pensation, and he shall hold his office during the pleasure of the
board. They shall also appoint an executive committee, of not
less than three nor more than six, to perform all such duties as
may be required of them by the board and as could be performed
by the board during the interim between its meetings. The said
executive committee shall report annually or oftener to the board
for its approval or disapproval the acts performed by it from
time to time.

The board of visitors shall appoint a faculty composed of as
many professors, associate or adjunct professors and teachers
as may be necessary for the college, all of whom shall hold their
offices during the pleasure of the board of visitors, and they shall
fix the compensation, if any, of each and all of these as they
may see fit.

Sec. 4. The board of visitors shall manage the affairs of
the corporation, care for its property, conduct its business, con-
trol its finances and shape its policy.
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_ Sec. 5. The corporation shall have power either on its own
initiative or upon the recommendation of a majority of the
faculty, to confer degrees of doctor of medicine, doctor of dental
surgery and graduate in pharmacy and such other degrees, or
honorary degrees, as it may deem proper.

Sec. 6. The corporation shall make an annual report to
the second auditor, as is required by law.

Sec. 7. Process against, or notice to, the said corporation
may be served only in the city of Richmond upon the chairman
of the board of visitors, on the vice-chairman, the president of
the corporation (if there be one), or the secretary and treasurer.

Sec. 8. This charter may at any time be modified, altered
or repealed at the pleasure of the general assembly of Virginia.