CODE OF VIRGINIA

(REPEALED EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2016) MEMBERSHIP OF GOVERNING BOARD; TERMS;
COMPENSATION; OFFICERS (§ 23-231.25)

A. The Center shall be governed by a 15-member Board of Trustees, consisting of
the Director of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia or his
designee; the Chancellor of the Virginia Community College System or his
designee; the presidents or chancellors, as appropriate, or their designees of
Longwood University, Danville Community College, and Southside Virginia
Community College; the division superintendent of Halifax County public schools;
two members of the House of Delegates to be appointed by the Speaker of the
House of Delegates; one member of the Senate to be appointed by the Senate
Committee on Rules; and six nonlegislative citizen members to be appointed by
the Governor, including the chairman and two other members of the Halifax
Education Foundation, and three representatives of business and industry. The
Speaker of the House of Delegates may appoint an alternate for the Delegate
appointed to the Center. The alternate shall serve a term coincident with the
term of the Delegate and shall have the power to act in his absence. The Senate
Committee on Rules may appoint an alternate for the Senator appointed to the
Center. The alternate shall serve a term coincident with the term of the Senator
and shall have the power to act in his absence.Nonlegislative citizen members of
the Board shall be chosen from among residents of the Southside region of the
Commonwealth and shall be citizens of the Commonwealth.

B. Legislative members and the representatives of the Council, the Virginia
Community College System, and the named institutions of higher education shall
serve terms coincident with their terms of office. After the initial staggering
of terms, all nonlegislative citizen appointments shall be for terms of four
years, except that appointments to fill vacancies shall be for the unexpired
terms. Vacancies shall be filled in the same manner as the original
appointments.No nonlegislative citizen member of the Board shall be eligible to
serve more than two successive four-year terms, but after the expiration of the
remainder of a term to which appointed to fill a vacancy, two additional
four-year terms may be served by such member if appointed thereto.

C. Nonlegislative citizen members shall not be entitled to compensation for
their services. Legislative members of the Board shall be compensated as
provided in § 30-19.12, and all members of the Board shall be reimbursed for
all reasonable and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their
duties in the work of the Center as provided in §§ 2.2-2813 and 2.2-2825. The
funding for the costs of compensation and expenses of the members shall be
provided by the Center.

D. The Board shall elect a chairman and a vice-chairman from among its members.

HISTORY: 2005, cc. 774, 799; 2006, c. 160.