CHAPTER 651

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered
23-86.2, creating certain nursing scholarships and providing for the
administration thereof.

[H 226]

Approved April 4, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding a section numbered
23-36.2 as follows:

§ 23-36.2. Nursing scholarships.—The governing board of the Medi-
cal College of Virginia may establish twenty annual nursing scholarships,
five of which shall be made available to members of the Negro race, and
the governing board of the University of Virginia may establish fifteen
annual nursing scholarships, which thirty-five scholarships hereby author-
ized shall be of the annual value of one hundred dollars each, and shall
be awarded and paid subject to the conditions and restrictions set out in
the following subsections:

(1) Each applicant for any such scholarship must be a bona fide
resident of the State of Virginia when such scholarship is awarded. The
awards shall be made upon such basis, competitive or otherwise, as may
be determined by the president or other proper officer of the school with
due regard to the scholastic attainments, character, and adaptability of the
applicant for the service contemplated in such award; provided, that no
award shall be made if the applicant fails to possess the requisite quali-
fications.

(2) Before any such scholarship is awarded the applicant shall sign
a written contract under the terms of which she agrees to pursue the
nursing course of the school awarding the scholarship until completion
and thereupon to promptly begin and thereafter engage continuously in
nursing work in the State of Virginia, for a period of years equal in
number to the years that she has been or shall be a beneficiary of any
such scholarship or scholarships. The contract shall provide that if the
applicant shall fail to comply with the provisions thereof or any of them
she shall repay to the school all amounts received by her as a beneficiary
of such awards, such repayment to be upon such terms and conditions
as may be determined by the school. Such contract shall contain such
other provisions as may be necessary, in the opinion of the president or
other proper officer of the school, to accomplish the purposes of the
scholarships.

(3) As further evidence of the promise of such recipient to make
such repayment, as to each scholarship awarded her in the event she shall
fail or refuse to fulfill the conditions and requirements herein specified
as to such scholarship, she shall, when such scholarship is awarded, be
required to execute and deliver to the school awarding the scholarship
a note in the principal sum of one hundred dollars, with interest at not
less than two nor more than four per centum, which note shall be
accepted by the school upon the condition that such note, and any other
similar notes so given, shall be cancelled by the school upon the basis of
one note for each year in which she shall continuously engage in nursing
work in the State of Virginia; provided, however, that no recipient of
any such scholarship shall be permitted to plead the statute of limitations
or interpose a plea of infancy in the event of an action being brought
against her on any such note.

4) All money repaid by any such recipient shall be placed in a
special fund which shall be used for nursing scholarships in accordance
with the provisions of this section. _

(5) Each such scholarship shall be awarded for a single year, but
the same student shall, after making satisfactory progress towards com-
pletion of her training in the school, receive such award for any succeeding
year or years, provided no student shall receive any such scholarship for
more than a total of three years.

(6) The funds making up each such scholarship shall be paid to the
recipient thereof, or applied to the payment of her expenses, at such
medical school, in such amounts and at such times during such school
year as may be determined by the president or other proper officer of the
school; provided, however, that no recipient shall receive for any such
scholarship less than one hundred dollars.