CHAPTER 482

An Act to amend and reenact § 28-107 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to State cadets in certain military institutions and to their obligations

as such.
[S 293]
Approved April 2, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 23-107 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
follows:

§ 23-107. Each cadet received on State account and who shall have
remained in the Institute during the period of two years or more, shall
act in the capacity of teacher in some school in this State for two years,
and such cadet shall be required to discharge his obligation as teacher
within the three years immediately after leaving the Institute, and he
shall report in writing to the superintendent of the Institute on or before
the first day of June of each year succeeding the date of his leaving the
Institute until he shall have discharged fully such obligation to the Com-
monwealth; or, at his option, such cadet may serve an enlistment in the
National Guard of the State, or serve for a period of two years as an
engineer for the State Highway Commission. And each cadet so received
on State account in the Institute on reporting for duty and matriculation
shall be required to enter into a bond, payable to the Virginia Military
Institute, in a sum sufficient to cover the board and tuition that may be
expended in his behalf as such State cadet; and unless the cadet shall ful-
fill his obligation as aforesaid, he shall be deemed to have violated his
contract, and authority is hereby given to the Institute to proceed by law
for the collection from the cadet of such amount as may be necessary to
cover so much of his board and tuition as may proportionately be due from
his failure to teach the whole or any part of the required two years, or to
serve in the National Guard or as an engineer on the public roads of Vir-
ginia; and no cadet executing such bond shall be permitted to plead infancy
or the statute of limitation in bar or recovery of such debt; provided, the
board of visitors may excuse such cadet from any one of these obligations
in such cases, as they may deem right and proper; and provided further,
if such cadet shall discharge any one of these obligations within the time
prescribed, he shall be deemed to have fulfilled his obligation to the State
imposed by this section; and provided further, that the provisions of this
section relating to discharge of the obligation shall be temporarily sus-
pended as to any cadet who, immediately upon leaving the Institute, enters
a medical school approved by the board of visitors of the Institute in
which event such cadet may sign a written contract with the Virginia
Military Institute under the terms of which he agrees to pursue the medi-
cal course of the school until his graduation and, upon graduating and
completing a term not to exceed two years as an interne shall promptiy
begin and thereafter engage continuously in the general practice of medi-
cine in a rural community in Virginia selected by the State Health Com-
missioner and the State Board of Health, for a period of two years; pro-
vided that an equivalent period of practice in a State supported mental
institution selected by the Commissioner of Mental Hygiene and Hosmtals
shall be deemed the equivalent of such practice in a rural area. Each cadet
who accepts an extension of his obligation under this provision shall re-
port in writing to the superintendent of the Institute on or before the
first day of June of each year succeeding the date of his leaving the Insti-
tute until he shall have discharged fully such obligation by compliance
with the terms of his contract or in any other manner approved by the
board of visitors.