CHAPTER 159

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Title 28 thereof a
chapter numbered 15, containing sections numbered 23-182 through
23-191, to create a corporation styled the Board of Visitors of Long-
wood College and to set forth the powers and duties thereof; to
provide for the appointment and terms of office of the members; to
prescribe the curriculum of the College; to provide for the granting
of degrees; and to provide for other matters in connection with the
foregoing.

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Approved March 3, 1964

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding in Title 23 thereof
a chapter numbered 15, containing sections numbered 23-182 through
23-191 as follows:

§ 23-182. There is hereby established a corporation composed of
the Board of Visitors of Longwood College under the style of “The Visitors
of Longwood College”, hereinafter referred to in this chapter as Board.

§ 23-183. The College shall be known as Longwood College.

§ 23-184. All the real estate and personal property now existing
and heretofore standing in the name of the State Board of Education,
located at Farmville, and heretofore used by Longwood College under the
State Board of Education, shall be transferred to and be known and taken
as standing in the name, and to be under the control, of the corporate
body designated “The Visitors of Longwood College’. Such real estate
and personal property shall be the property of the Commonwealth.

§ 23-185. (a) The Board shall consist of twelve members of whom
eleven shall be appointed by the Governor; the Superintendent of Public
Instruction shall be a member, ex officio.

(b) In nineteen hundred sixty-four the Governor shall appoint the
eleven appointive members of the Board for terms beginning July one,
nineteen hundred sixty-four. Six of such members shall be appointed to
serve for four-year terms and five shall be appointed to serve for two-
year terms. Successors to the members so appointed shall be appointed
to serve for terms of four years each. Vacancies occurring other than by
expiration of term shall be filled for the unexpired term. Of the persons
so appointed two may be nonresidents of the State, the remaining number
to be selected from the State at large.

(c) All appointments shall be subject to confirmation by the General
Assembly. Members shall continue to hold office until their successors
have been appointed and have qualified.

§ 23-186. (a) The Governor may appoint visitors from a list of
qualified persons submitted to him, by the alumni association of the
College, or its titular successor, on or before the first day of July of any
year in which the terms of any visitors will begin or expire.

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

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

§ 23-187. No person except the ex officio member shall be eligible to
serve for or during more than two successive terms.

§ 23-188. The Board shall be vested with all the rights and powers
conferred by this chapter insofar as the same are not inconsistent with
the laws of the State.

The Board shall control and expend the funds of the College and any
appropriation hereafter provided, and shall make all needful rules and
regulations concerning the College, appoint the president, who shall be
its chief executive officer, and all professors, teachers and agents, and fix
their salaries, and generally direct the affairs of the College.

§ 23-189. The Board may fix the rates charged the students of the
College for tuition, fees and other necessary charges.

§ 23-190. The Board shall have the right to confer degrees.
§ 23-191. The curriculum of Longwood College shall embrace such
branches of learning as relate to teaching in the public free schools of
Virginia, without excluding other studies in the arts and sciences.