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2004 SESSION
047579392Be 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
University, 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 Roanoke Higher Education
Authority and Center; 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; the Eastern Virginia
Medical School; and the Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center, and the
Institute for Advanced Learning and Research 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.