Code of Virginia - Title 23 Educational Institutions - Section 23-253.1 Membership of board of trustees; quorum

§ 23-253.1. Membership of board of trustees; quorum

The management and control of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, hereinafter in this chapter called the "Museum," together with the building, contents, furnishings, grounds and other properties thereof shall be vested in a board of trustees composed of the following persons: (i) ex officio members: the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, the Speaker of the House of Delegates and the mayor of the City of Richmond; and (ii) regular members: the trustees who are in office on June 27, 1958, and their successors from time to time, consisting of not less than twenty-five persons and not more than thirty-five persons. The term of office of all regular members who are in office on June 27, 1958, shall continue until June 30, 1963, and shall expire at that time. All successors from time to time, whether for a full term or for the remainder of an unexpired term, shall be appointed and commissioned by the Governor, upon the nomination of the trustees from the list of members of the Museum. The trustees appointed to hold office beginning on July 1, 1963, shall be divided as nearly as may be, into five equal groups, their terms of office to expire, respectively, one, two, three, four and five years thereafter. All trustees subsequently appointed shall hold office for a term of five years unless appointed for the remainder of an unexpired term. No person shall be eligible to serve consecutively for more than two successive complete terms. Nine trustees shall constitute a quorum at any meeting and a majority vote of those present shall control in all matters.

(1997, c. 367.)

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