Chap. 145.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 835 of the Code of Virginia,
as heretofore amended, relating to the appointment of the board of visitors
for the Virginia Military Institute. [S B 184]

Approved March 11, 1936

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion eight hundred and thirty-five of the Code of Virginia, as hereto-
fore amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 835. There shall be a board of visitors for the institution
composed of the adjutant general, the superintendent of public in-
struction, and nine other persons selected from the State at large, who
shall be appointed and commissioned by the Governor, subject to con-
firmation by the Senate. The nine appointed members of the board
who are in office when this amended section takes effect shall continue
in office until their respective terms expire. Within sixty days prior to
July first, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, and biennially thereafter,
the Governor shall, by and with the consent of the Senate, appoint,
for a term of four years, the successors of those whose terms are about
to expire. If a vacancy occurs in the office of a visitor at any time
during his term, the Governor shall except as hereinafter provided, fill
it by appointing such person as he may deem proper as visitor for such
unexpired term as has not expired, subject to ratification or rejection
by the Senate at the next session of the General Assembly.

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 eight persons, qualified
to fill the office of visitor, which list shall be submitted to him in each
such year by the alumni association of the Virginia Military Institute,
at least thirty days prior to the date upon which the terms of such vis-
itors are to begin. Any visitor so appointed from any such list shall,
however, notwithstanding the foregoing provision, be eligible for re-
appointment to succeed himself as a member of the said board of vis-
itors although his name may not appear on any such list current at the
time of such re-appointment. The said list shall be made up by the
said alumni association in such manner as it shall prescribe, or by the
executive Committee thereof, if no method is prescribed by the said
association. If said list is not submitted within the time herein re-
quired, the Governor shall disregard the provision of this section relat-
ing to the submission of such list, and shall appoint such persons as he
may deem proper.

Whenever a vacancy occurs among the three members of the vis-
itors appointed by the Governor as nominees of said alumni associa-
tion, otherwise than by expiration of term, the Governor shall certify
this fact to the alumni association and the association may submit a
list of eight persons, qualified to fill the office of visitor, from which
list the Governor 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 as-
sociation to furnish such list within fifteen days from the date such
vacancy has been certified to the association by the Governor, the Gov-
ernor shall appoint a nominee of the alumni association from the list
last previously submitted so as to have at least three visitors who shall
be nominees of the alumni association as aforesaid.

Five members of said board shall constitute a quorum for business.
The said board may sue and be sued for any cause or matters which
have heretofore arisen, as well as for any cause or matter which may
hereafter arise.