CHAPTER 70

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Chapter 18 of Title
28 sections numbered 28-165.1 through 28-165.9, to create a corpora-
tion composed of the Board of Visitors of Virginia State College; to
provide for the appointment, terms of office, powers and duties of the
members thereof and of the Board; to prescribe the curriculum of the
College; and to amend and reenact §§ 23-166 through 23-170, and
28-173, as severally amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to
Virginia State College, Norfolk Division, students, contributions and
education of medical and dental students; and to repeal §§ 238-165,
28-171 and 28-172 of the Code of Virginia, relating to name of school,
curriculum, and certain powers of the Superintendent of Public
Instruction.

[H 239]

Approved February 21, 1964

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding in Chapter 13 of
Title 23 sections numbered 23-165.1 through 23-165.9 as follows:

§ 23-165.1. There is hereby established a corporation composed of
the Board of Visitors of Virginia State College under the style of “The
Visitors of Virginia State College” in this chapter hereinafter referred to
as the Board.

§ 23-165.2. The College shall be known as Virginia State College.

§ 23-165.3. All the real estate and personal property now existing
and heretofore standing in the name of the State Board of Education,
located in and near Petersburg and Norfolk, respectively, heretofore exclu-
sively used by Virginia State College, shall be transferred to and be known
and taken as standing in the name, and to be under the control, of The
Visitors of Virginia State College. Such real estate and personal property
shall be the property of the Commonwealth.

§ 23-165.4. ‘(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 expira-
tion of term shall be filled for the unexpired term. Of the persons so
appointed two may be nonresidents of the State, the remaining members
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.

§ 23-165.5. No person except the ex officio member shall be eligible
to serve for or during more than two successive terms.

§ 23-165.6. The Board shall be vested with all the rights and powers
conferred by the provisions of this chapter in so far 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.
§ 23-165.7. The Board may fix the rates charged the students of the
College for tuition, fees and other necessary charges.

§ 23-165.8. The Board shall have the right to confer degrees. __

§ 23-165.9. The curriculum of Virginia State College, including its
Norfolk Division, shall embrace branches of learning as relate to agricul-
ture, home economics, commerce, industrial education and technology, the
liberal arts and sciences, teacher education, nursing education, and mili-
tary science.

2. That §§ 23-166 through 28-170, and 23-173, as severally amended, of
the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 23-166. The institution shall continue to be a body corporate under
the name and style of the “Virginia State College’. It shall be under the
management, supervision and control of the * Board.

§ 23-167. The powers and duties of the * Board shall be to direct
and do all things not inconsistent with the laws of this State which to the
Board shall seem best adapted to accomplish the legitimate objects of the
College; to designate depositories, provide for the proper bonding of finan-
cial officers and depositories, and provide for the disbursing of the funds
of the College consistent with the laws of the State; and to grant to such
as excel in any field of knowledge or complete a prescribed course of study,
such certificates, diplomas or degrees as shall be deemed expedient and
proper. All of which several functions they shall be free to exercise by
rules, by-laws, resolutions, orders, instructions, or otherwise.

§ 23-168. The * Board shall establish and operate at the present site
of the Norfolk Polytechnic College and/or on the property of Saint Vincent
de Paul Hospital in the city of Norfolk or at such other point or points
as it may determine, a division of the Virginia State College, to provide
college courses and such other courses of a vocational and technical char-
acter, as in the judgment of the Board may seem best suited to the needs
of the students and the area which it will serve. All courses offered under
the provisions of this section are to meet the normal standards set by the

ard.
The Board may accept on behalf of the Commonwealth under lease
or by conveyance such real estate, personal property, gifts, and grants,
from the city of Norfolk, from the Norfolk Polytechnic College or from
other agencies, as may in its opinion, be useful and/or necessary in the
organization and operation of such division of the College as may be estab-
lished under this section.

For such purposes the city of Norfolk may convey or lease to the
Commonwealth without cost and on such terms and conditions as the
governing body of the city shall deem proper, the aforesaid real estate in
whole or in part and such other personal property, gifts and grants, as
the city’s governing body shall deem necessary and proper for such
purposes.

§ 28-169. Due notice shall be given by the president of the College
to the division superintendents of schools of all vacancies existing in the
College in the case of State students; whereupon the division superin-
tendents of schools may proceed to nominate persons to fill the vacancies
and officially notify the president of the College of the nominations. If, in
due time after such notice, no nomination be made, the vacancy indicated
may be filled by the president of the College at the discretion of the *
Board from the State at large.

§ 23-170. Any person may deposit in the treasury of the State, or
bequeath money, stocks, or bonds to be so deposited, or grant, devise or
bequeath property, real or personal, to be sold, and the proceeds so depos-
ited, which shall be invested as the donor may indicate, or the * Board
may see proper, for the benefit of the College, and in such case the interest
or dividends accruing on such deposits shall be placed to the credit of the
College to be used for the purpose hereof, unless some particular appro-
priation shall have been designated by the donor or testator; in which
case such particular use or appropriation shall be respected.

5 The College shall receive the governmental aid designated in §§ 23-136
and 23-137.

§ 23-173. In order to provide for the education in medicine and
dentistry of properly qualified Negroes of Virginia, the * Board is author-
ized to contribute to the cost of the education of medical students and
dental students at Meharry Medical College, located at Nashville, Tennes-
see, the amount of the contribution to be five hundred dollars a year for
each medical student, and four hundred dollars a year for each dental stu-
dent. These contributions shall be made in such manner and for such
students as determined by the Board and out of funds appropriated to the
Board for equalization of higher educational opportunities.

§§ 23-165, 23-171 and 23-172 of the Code of Virginia are repealed.