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2000 SESSION
003913206Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 23-14 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 23-14. Certain educational institutions declared governmental instrumentalities; powers vested in majority of members of board.
The College of William and Mary in Virginia, at Williamsburg; the rector and
visitors of Christopher Newport University, at Newport News; Longwood College,
at Farmville; the Mary Washington College, at Fredericksburg; George Mason
University, at Fairfax; the James Madison University, at Harrisonburg; Old
Dominion University, at Norfolk; the State Board for Community Colleges, at
Richmond; the Virginia Commonwealth University, at Richmond; the Radford
University, at Radford; the rector and visitors of the University of Virginia,
at Charlottesville; the University of Virginia's College at Wise; the Virginia
Military Institute, at Lexington; the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University, at Blacksburg; the Virginia Schools for the Deaf and the Blind; the
Virginia State University, at Petersburg; Norfolk State University, at Norfolk;
the Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation Center, at Fishersville; and the Medical
College of Hampton Roads, and the Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center,
are hereby classified as educational institutions and are declared to be public bodies and
constituted as governmental instrumentalities for the dissemination of education. The
powers of every such institution derived directly or indirectly from this
chapter shall be vested in and exercised by a majority of the members of its
board, and a majority of such board shall be a quorum for the transaction of
any business authorized by this chapter. Wherever the word "board" is used in
this chapter, it shall be deemed to include the members of a governing body
designated by another title.