CHAPTER 569

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 28-107, as amended, of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to State cadets in Virginia Military Institute and to
their obligations as such.

(S 154]

Approved March 29, 1958

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 23-107, as amended, 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 Commonwealth; 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 or for a period of two years as an engineer
with the State Department of Health. 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 fulfill his obli-
gation 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 collec-
tion 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 Virginia or for a
period of two years as an engineer with the State Department of Health;
and no cadet executing such bond shall be permitted to plead infancy or
the statute of limitation in bar of 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 medical course
of the school until his graduation and, upon graduating and completing
a term not to exceed two years as an interne shall promptly begin and
thereafter engage continuously in the general practice of medicine in
a rural community in Virginia selected by the State Health Commissioner
and the State Board of Health, for a period of two years; provided that
an equivalent period of practice in a State supported mental institution
selected by the Commissioner of Mental Hygiene and Hospitals 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 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 by compliance with the
terms of his contract or in any other manner approved by the board of
visitors.