CHAPTER 440

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 28-14 and 28-831, as amended, of the
Code of Virginia, relating to educational institutions and scholarships
thereat and declaring certain educational institutions to be govern-
mental instrumentalities.

[H 347]

Approved March 31, 1964

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 23-14 and 23-31, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be
amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 23-14. The College of William and Mary in Virginia, at Williams-
burg; the Medical College of Virginia, at Richmond; the board of visitors
of the Virginia State School, at Newport News; * Longwood College, at
Farmville; the Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia, at
Fredericksburg; the Madison College, at Harrisonburg; * Old Dominion
College, at Norfolk; the Richmond Professional Institute, at Richmond;
the Radford College, * at Radford; the rector and visitors of the Univer-
sity of Virginia, at Charlottesville; the Virginia Military Institute, at
Lexington; the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, at Blacksburg; the Virgini
School for the Blind, at Charlottesville; the Virginia School for the Deaf
and Blind, at Staunton; the Virginia State College, at Petersburg; and the
Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation Center, at Fishersville, and the Norfolk
Area Medical Center Authority, in Norfolk, are hereby classified as
educational institutions and are declared to be public bodies and consti-
tuted as governmental instrumentalities for the dissemination of educa-
tion. The powers of every such institution derived directly or indirectly
from this chapter shall be vested in and exercised by a majority of the
members of its board, and a majority of such board shall be a quorum for
the transaction of any business authorized by this chapter. Wherever the
word “institution” is used in this chapter it shall be deemed to include
“authority” and the word “board” shall be deemed to include the members
of the Authority.

§ 23-31. ‘(a) The corporate authorities of the University of Vir-
ginia; the Virginia Military Institute; the Virginia Polytechnic Institute;
the College of William and Mary in Virginia; the Medical College of
Virginia; the * Longwood College at Farmville; the Mary Washington
College of the University of Virginia, at Fredericksburg; the Madison Col-
lege at Harrisonburg; the Richmond Professional Institute; the Radford
College, * at Radford, Old Dominion College, at Norfolk, and the Virginia
State College, may establish scholarships, hereafter to be designated as
unfunded scholarships, in their respective institutions under such regula-
tions and conditions as they may prescribe, but subject to the following
limitations and restrictions:

(1) All such scholarships shall be applied exclusively to the remis-
sion, in whole or in part, of instructional charges, which charges and fees
except for laboratory fees shall be included in a single item designated
as tuition.

(2) The number of such scholarships awarded in any one institution
for any year to Virginia students therein shall not be in excess of twenty
per centum of the enrollment of Virginia students in undergraduate
studies in such institution for the preceding year or in lieu thereof the
total value of all scholarships awarded in any one institution for any year
to Virginia students shall not be in excess of any amount arrived at by
multiplying * three hundred dollars by twenty per centum of the enroll-
ment of Virginia students in undergraduate studies in such institution for
the preceding year; the number of scholarships awarded in any one insti-
tution for any year to non-Virginia students in such institution shall not
be in excess of twenty per centum of the enrollment of non-Virginia stu-
dents in undergraduate studies in such institution for the preceding year,
and the total value of all scholarships so awarded to such non-Virginia
students shall not exceed in any year the amount paid during such year by
non-Virginia students in undergraduate studies for instructional services
in excess of the actual cost of instruction of such non-Virginia students.

(3) Such scholarships shall be awarded only to undergraduate stu-
dents in the first four years of undergraduate work, and shall not be
renewed for any subsequent year after the first unless the holder thereof
maintains a high scholastic standard.

(4) Such scholarships shall be awarded by the governing boards of
the respective institutions on a selective basis to students of character and
ability who are in need of financial assistance.

(5) Each scholarship awarded shall entitle the holder thereof to the
remission of not less than one-half of the annual tuition charge to non-
scholarship holders at such institution, provided that no such remission
shall exceed in value the sum of * three hundred dollars.

(b) No educational institution named herein shall award any schol-
arship, or remit any special fees or charges, to any student at such insti-
tution except as authorized in this section. Hach educational institution
mamed herein shall make an annual report to the State Council of Higher
Education showing the number and amount of scholarships awarded
under this section.

(c) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent or limit in
any way the admission of certain students, known as State cadets, at the
Virginia Military Institute or to affect the remission of fees or charges
to such State cadets as permitted under existing law.

(d) Nothing in this section shall be construed to affect or limit in
any way the control of the governing bodies of the respective institutions
over any scholarships provided or established under the provisions of
§§ 23-33 to 23-35; or over any gifts or donations made to such institutions
for scholarships or other special purposes; or over any funds provided by
the federal government or otherwise for the purpose of vocational educa-
tion or vocational rehabilitation in this State; or over any funds derived
from endowment or appropriations from the federal government for
instruction in agriculture and mechanic arts in land grant colleges.

(e) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the govern-
ing bodies of the respective institutions from fixing a reasonably lower
tuition charge for Virginia students than for non-Virginia students.