23-49.23 - Board of visitors a corporation and under control of General Assembly. - Virginia Statutes

§ 23-49.23. Board of visitors a corporation and under control of GeneralAssembly.

There is hereby established a corporate body composed of the board ofvisitors of Christopher Newport University under the style "The Rector andVisitors of Christopher Newport University," hereafter referred to in thischapter as "the board" or "the board of visitors," which shall have, inaddition to its other powers, all the corporate powers given to corporationsby the provisions of Title 13.1, except in those cases where, by the expressterms of the provisions thereof, it is confined to corporations created undersuch title, and the board shall also have the power to accept, execute andadminister any trust in which it may have an interest under the terms of theinstrument creating the trust. Such corporation shall be subject at alltimes to the control of the General Assembly. The University shall be knownas Christopher Newport University.

(1976, c. 21; 1992, c. 103.)