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Va. Code Ann. § 23.1-2305 (2026)

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A. The board shall appoint all teachers, staff members, and agents, fix their salaries, and prescribe their duties.

B. The board shall generally direct the affairs and business of the University.

C. The board may confer degrees, including honorary degrees.

D. The board may take, hold, receive, and enjoy any gift, grant, devise, or bequest to the University or its predecessors for the uses and purposes designated by the donor, or if not so designated, for the general purposes of the corporation, whether given directly or indirectly, and accept, execute, and administer any trust in which it may have an interest under the terms of the instrument creating the trust.

1968, c. 93, §§ 23-50.8, 23-50.10; 23-50.12; 2016, c. 588.

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Cited in 2 cases (2 in the last 5 years), 2025–2025 · leading case: Commonwealth of Virginia v. Jones Lang LaSalle Americas, Inc. (Va. Ct. App. 2025).
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Commonwealth of Virginia v. Jones Lang LaSalle Americas, Inc. (Va. Ct. App. 2025). · cites it 4× “he Underground Utility Damage Prevention Act (“UUDPA”)3 because pertinent factual allegations were changed between the filing of the original and amended complaints; and 3) the circuit court erred by determining that the contractors were “authorized” to be in the utility tunnel…”
Commonwealth of Virginia v. Jones Lang LaSalle Americas, Inc. (Va. Ct. App. 2025). · cites it 2× “For the reasons that follow, we reverse the circuit court’s judgment and remand for further proceedings.”
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