CHAPTER 280

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Chapter 11 of Title
23 an article numbered 2.8, containing sections numbered 28-185.12
through 23-185.16, so as to establish, as a division of the Virginia
Polytechnic Institute, an off-campus branch at Wytheville, Virginia,
and to prescribe the terms and conditions incident to the establish-
ment of such branch.

[H 539]

Approved March 15, 1962

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding in Chapter 11 of
Title 23 an article numbered 2.3, containing sections numbered 23-135.12
through 23-135.16, as follows:

ARTICLE 2.3

§ 23-135.12. There is hereby established within the Virginia Poly-
technic Institute a division to be known as the “Wytheville Branch of the
Virginia Polytechnic Institute’, hereinafter referred to as the division.
Such division shall be in all respects subject to the judgment, control and
supervision of the governing board of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

§ 23-135.13. The Board of Visitors of the Virginia Polytechnic In-
stitute shall have the same powers as to determining the fields of instruc-
tion to be offered; as to fixing tuition, fees and other charges; as to the
appointment and removal of administrative officers, professors, agents and
servants, and the making of rules and regulations as are now vested in said
board with respect to Virginia Polytechnic Institute. The board of visitors
shall have the power of granting appropriate diplomas or certificates of
successful completion of the two-year curriculum of such division.

§ 23-135.14. The curriculum offered by the division shall be limited
to courses of instruction which are offered by the Virginia Polytechnic
Institute to resident students during their first two years of enrollment
and to such other terminal courses of no more than two years duration
as may be authorized by the board of visitors to meet the post high school
educational needs of the community.

§ 23-135.15. Appropriations, directly or indirectly, from the State
to the college shall be expended as directed by the Board of Visitors of
the Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

§ 23-135.16. The Board of Visitors of the Virginia Polytechnic In-
stitute shall be charged with the care and preservation of all property,
real and personal, belonging to the college. To this end, the Board is
authorized to acquire, by gift or purchase, a suitable site for the college,
and may accept and expend gifts and donations of any kind from indl-
viduals, firms, corporations and organizations.