Chap. 69.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 807 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended and re-enacted by an act, approved March 7, 1924, entitled
“An act to amend section 807 of the Code of Virginia,” in relation to appoint-
ment of board of visitors for University of Virginia. [S B 202]

Approved February 27, 1930

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
eight hundred and seven of the Code of Virginia as amended and
re-enacted by an act, approved March seventh, nineteen hundred and
twenty-four, entitled “An act to amend section eight hundred and
seven of the Code of Virginia,’ be amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows:

Section 807. Appointment of visitors—There shall be ten visitors.
one of whom shall be the superintendent of public instruction, and
nine of whom shall be appointed by the governor. The visitors now in
office, or such persons as may be appointed in their stead, are continued
therein until their respective terms of office expire, to-wit: such five
of them as were so designated by the governor at the time of their
appointment until the twenty-eighth day of February, nineteen hundred
and thirty, and the other four, or those who shall be appointed to suc-
ceed them for the unexpired term for which they are now serving,
until the twenty-ninth day of February, nineteen hundred and thirty-
two. Within the sixty days preceding the day on which the terms of
office respectively of the several members of the board will expire by
limitation as aforesaid, the governor, by and with the consent of the
senate, shall appoint, to fill the vacancies so to be occasioned, persons
whose term of office shall be for four years from that day. And
thereafter, within sixty days preceding the day on which the terms of
office respectively of the members shall expire by limitation, the gov-
ernor, by and with the consent of the senate, shall appoint, to fill the
vacancies so to be occasioned, persons whose terms of office shall be
for four years from the day on which the terms of their immediate
predecessors expired.

Vacancies caused otherwise than by the expiration of the term of
office shall be filled by the governor for the unexpired term by appoint-
ment which shall be subject to ratification or rejection by the senate
at the next session of the general assembly. The members of the
board shall in all cases continue to discharge the duties of their office
after their terms have expired until their successors have been ap-
pointed and qualified.

The governor shall appoint at least one visitor in the years in which
he has four visitors to appoint, and two visitors in the years in which
he has five visitors to appoint, from a list of nine persons, qualified
to fill the office of visitor, which list shall be submitted to him, whether
he shall have taken office or not, by the alumni association of the Uni-
versity of Virginia not later than the first day of December of the
year preceding that in which the terms of said visitors are to begin,
and visitors so appointed from said list shall be eligible for reappoint-
ment only in case their names appear on the list which shall be curren’
at the time when their respective terms expire. The said list shal
be made up by the alumni association of the University of Virginia
in such manner as it shall prescribe, and in the absence of other appli-
cable provisions shall be named by the board of managers of the said
association ; and the list of eight persons before the governor at the
time of the passage of this act may be enlarged by the board of man-
agers of the said alumni association by the addition of two names, and,
as so enlarged, shall be the list used by the governor in making appoint-
ments in the year nineteen hundred and thirty.

If the said alumni association of the University of Virginia shall
in any such year fail to submit such a list in accordance with the pro-
visions hereof, the appointments of visitors whose terms would com-
mence in the year next succeeding the date on or before which said
list should have been submitted, shall be made just as if said association
had not been empowered to submit such a list.

Whenever a vacancy occurs among the three members of the visitors
appointed by the governor as nominees of said alumni association, other-
wise than by expiration of term, the governor shall certify this fact
to the alumni association and the association may submit a list of
nine persons, qualified to fill the office of visitor, from whom the gov-
ernor shall select one, to fill such vacancy, as the nominee of the alumni
association, which list shall have the same effect as lists filed as herein
otherwise provided ; but, upon failure of the alumni association to fur-
nish such list within fifteen days from the date such vacancy has been
certified to the association by the governor, the governor shall appoint
a nominee of the alumni association from the list last previously sub-
mitted so as to have at least three visitors who shall be nominees of
the alumni association as aforesaid.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from and after
its passage.