CHAPTER 139

An Act to amend and reenact § 23-31 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to certain scholarships of certain colleges and universities.
[S 76]
Approved February 28, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1, That § 23-31 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
follows:

§ 23-31. (a) The corporate authorities of the University of Virginia;
the Virginia Military Institute; the Virginia Polytechnic Institute; the Col-
lege of William and Mary in Virginia; the Medical College of Virginia; the
State Teachers’ College at Farmville; the Mary Washington College of the
University of Virginia, at Fredericksburg; the Madison College at
Harrisonburg; the Radford College, Woman’s Division, Virginia Poly-
technic Institute, at Radford, and the Virginia State College, may establish
scholarships, hereafter to be designated as unfunded scholarships, in their
respective institutions under such regulations and conditions as they may
prescribe, but subject to the following limitations and restrictions:

(1) All such scholarships shall be applied exclusively to the remission,
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 ¢wo 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
institution 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
students 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 instruc-
tional 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 remis-
sion shall exceed in value the sum of * fwo hundred dollars.

(b) No educational institution named herein shall award any scholar-
ship, or remit any special fees or charges, to any student at such institution
except as authorized in 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 gov-
erning bodies of the respective institutions from fixing a reasonably lower
tuition charge for Virginia students than for non-Virginia students.