Chap. 241.——An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 859 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended, relating to the Board of Visitors of the Virginia Polytechnic In-
stitute. [H 155]

Approved March 16, 1944

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section eight hundred fifty-nine of the Code of Virginia,
as amended, be amended and re-enacted, as follows:

Section 859. Appointment of Visitors of the College—(a) The
Board of Visitors is to consist of sixteen visitors, fourteen to be ap-
pointed by the Governor from the State at large, some of whom shall
be farmers and mechanics, and some may be persons engaged 1n other
vocations, four of whom shall be women, and the President of the Board
of Agriculture and Immigration and the Superintendent of Public In-
struction ex-officio. The appointive visitors in office when this amend-
ment takes effect are continued until January one, nineteen hundred
forty-five. Their successors are to be appointed for the following terms :
three for terms of five years; three for terms of four years; three for
terms of three years; three for terms of two years and two for terms
of one year.

(b) Thereafter, within sixty days preceding the day on which the
terms of office respectively of the visitors will expire by limitation, the
Governor shall appoint, to fill the vacancies so occasioned, qualified per-
sons whose terms shall be for five years from the day on which the terms
of their immediate predecessors expired.

(c) All vacancies, whether occasioned by failure to make an ap-
pointment within the sixty days preceding any regular expiration as re-
quired, or otherwise, are to be filled by the Governor for the unexpired
term.

(d) All appointments are subject to confirmation by the Senate
at its next session. Appointive visitors shall continue to discharge their
duties after their terms have expired until their successors have been
appointed and have qualihed.

(e) The Governor may appoint visitors from a list of qualified
persons submitted to him, before or after induction into office, by the
alumni association of the Institute, on or before the first day of October
of any year in which the terms of any visitors will expire.

(f) Whenever a vacancy occurs, otherwise than by expiration of
term, the Governor shall certify this fact to the assocation and nomina-
tions may be submitted of qualified persons and the Governor may fill
the vacancy, if his discretion so dictates, from among the eligible nomi-
nees of the association, whether or not alumni or alumnae.

(g) Every list shall contain at least three names for each vacancy
to be filled.

(h) The Governor is not to be limited in his appointments to the
persons so nominated.

(i) At no time shall less than seven of the appointive visitors be
alumni or alumnae of the Institute.

(j) No person shall be eligible to serve for or during more than
two successive terms, and incumbency during the current term when
this amendment takes effect constitutes the first of the two successive
terms with respect to eligibility for appointment, except that members
who shall have served for less than four years on January one, nineteen
hundred forty-five, shall be eligible for re-appointment for such periods
as shall make a total continuous service of ten years.