There is hereby established a corporate body composed of the board of visitors of Christopher Newport University under the style “The Rector and Visitors of Christopher Newport University,” hereafter referred to in this chapter as “the board” or “the board of visitors,” which shall have, in addition to its other powers, all the corporate powers given to corporations by the provisions of Title 13.1, except in those cases where, by the express terms of the provisions thereof, it is confined to corporations created under such title, and the board shall also have the power to accept, execute and administer any trust in which it may have an interest under the terms of the instrument creating the trust. Such corporation shall be subject at all times to the control of the General Assembly. The University shall be known as Christopher Newport University.

History

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