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2004 SESSION


CHAPTER 695
An Act to amend and reenact § 23-41 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the board of visitors of the College of William and Mary.
[S 397]
Approved April 12, 2004

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 23-41 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 23-41. Appointment of visitors generally; number and terms; vacancies.

The board of visitors is to consist of seventeen 17 members to be appointed by the Governor three four of whom may be nonresidents of Virginia.

All appointments shall be for terms of four years each, except appointments to fill unexpired vacancies which shall be made by the Governor for the remainder of the unexpired terms. However, the terms of the members holding office on March 5, 1992, shall be extended from March 6 to June 30 of the year in which their respective terms expire. Further, the service of those members whose terms expire on June 30, 1992, shall be extended one year. The Governor may make appointments to the board for the members whose terms are so extended to June 30, 1993, as though this service extension had not been granted and the terms had expired as scheduled. If necessary, the board of visitors shall be expanded to no more than twenty-two 22 members from March 6, 1992, to June 30, 1993. Thereafter, the membership shall revert to seventeen 17 members. Reappointment by the Governor of any member eligible for the service extension shall be for the term of four years.

No person shall be eligible to serve more than two consecutive four-year terms, except that a member may be appointed to a term of less than four years immediately prior to or between the four-year terms. For the purpose of determining service eligibility, any term of service extended to June 30 of the respective year pursuant to this section shall be treated as a four-year term. Hereafter, all appointments shall expire June 30 of the year in which the term expires.

All appointments are subject to confirmation by the General Assembly if in session when such appointments are made, and if not in session, at its next succeeding session.