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The Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources and the Secretary of Commerce and Trade shall serve ex officio without voting privileges and may send their deputies or another cabinet member to meetings in the event that official duties require their presence elsewhere. Cabinet members and elected representatives shall serve terms commensurate with their terms of office. Legislative members may send another legislator to meetings as full voting members in the event that official duties require their presence elsewhere.\n\t\tThe Board so appointed shall enter upon the performance of its duties and shall initially and annually thereafter elect one of its members as chairman and another as vice-chairman. The Board shall also elect annually a secretary, who shall be a member of the Board, and a treasurer, who need not be a member of the Board, or a secretary-treasurer, who need not be a member of the Board. The chairman, or in his absence the vice-chairman, shall preside at all meetings of the Board, and in the absence of both the chairman and vice-chairman, the Board shall elect a chairman pro tempore who shall preside at such meetings. Seven Trustees shall constitute a quorum, and all action by the Board shall require the affirmative vote of a majority of the Trustees present and voting, except that any action to amend or terminate the existing Reuse Plan, or to adopt a new Reuse Plan, shall require the affirmative vote of 75 percent or more of the Trustees present and voting. The members of the Board shall be entitled to reimbursement for expenses incurred in attendance upon meetings of the Board or while otherwise engaged in the discharge of their duties. 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This law was first created in 2011. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapters 716<\/a>, 780<\/a>, and 858<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. It has been modified 2 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 2014, chapters 115<\/a>, 490<\/a>, 676<\/a>, and 681<\/a>; in 2017, chapters 215<\/a> and 732<\/a>.<\/p>","references":[{"id":86922,"section_number":"2.2-2337","catch_line":"Definitions","order_by":null,"url":"\/2.2-2337\/"},{"id":61272,"section_number":"2.2-2340","catch_line":"Additional declaration of policy; powers of the Authority; penalty","order_by":null,"url":"\/2.2-2340\/"}],"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":173963,"object_type":"law","relational_id":76395,"identifier":"2.2-2338","token":"2.2\/I\/D\/22\/10\/2.2-2338","url":"\/2.2-2338\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/2.2-2338\/","token":"2.2\/I\/D\/22\/10\/2.2-2338","dublin_core":{"Title":"Board of Trustees; membership","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 2.2-2338","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

There is hereby created a political subdivision and public body corporate and politic of the Commonwealth<\/span> of Virginia to be known as the Fort Monroe Authority<\/span>, to be governed by a Board<\/span> of Trustees<\/span> (Board<\/span>) consisting of 14 members appointed as follows: the Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources and the Secretary of Commerce and Trade, or their successor positions if those positions no longer exist, from the Governor’s cabinet; the member of the Senate of Virginia and the member of the House of Delegates representing the district in which Fort Monroe lies; two members appointed by the Hampton City<\/span> Council; and eight nonlegislative citizen members appointed by the Governor, seven of whom shall have expertise relevant to the implementation of the Fort Monroe Reuse Plan<\/span>, including but not limited to the fields of historic preservation, tourism, environment, real estate, finance, and education, and one of whom shall be a citizen representative from the Hampton Roads region. The Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources and the Secretary of Commerce and Trade shall serve ex officio without voting privileges<\/span> and may send their deputies or another cabinet member to meetings in the event that official duties require their presence elsewhere. Cabinet members and elected representatives shall serve terms commensurate with their terms of office. Legislative members may send another legislator to meetings as full voting members in the event that official duties require their presence elsewhere.\n\t\tThe Board<\/span> so appointed shall enter upon the performance of its duties and shall initially and annually thereafter elect one of its members as chairman and another as vice-chairman. The Board<\/span> shall also elect annually a secretary, who shall be a member of the Board<\/span>, and a treasurer, who need not be a member of the Board<\/span>, or a secretary-treasurer, who need not be a member of the Board<\/span>. The chairman, or in his absence the vice-chairman, shall preside at all meetings of the Board<\/span>, and in the absence of both the chairman and vice-chairman, the Board<\/span> shall elect a chairman pro tempore who shall preside at such meetings. Seven Trustees<\/span> shall constitute a quorum, and all action by the Board<\/span> shall require the affirmative vote of a majority of the Trustees<\/span> present and voting, except that any action to amend<\/span> or terminate the existing Reuse Plan, or to adopt a new Reuse Plan, shall require the affirmative vote of 75 percent or more of the Trustees<\/span> present and voting. The members of the Board<\/span> shall be entitled to reimbursement for expenses incurred in attendance upon meetings of the Board<\/span> or while otherwise engaged in the discharge of their duties. Such expenses shall be paid out of the treasury of the Authority<\/span> in such manner as shall be prescribed by the Authority<\/span>.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nBOARD OF TRUSTEES; MEMBERSHIP (\u00a7 2.2-2338)\n\nThere is hereby created a political subdivision and public body corporate and\npolitic of the Commonwealth of Virginia to be known as the Fort Monroe\nAuthority, to be governed by a Board of Trustees (Board) consisting of 14\nmembers appointed as follows: the Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources\nand the Secretary of Commerce and Trade, or their successor positions if those\npositions no longer exist, from the Governor’s cabinet; the member of the\nSenate of Virginia and the member of the House of Delegates representing the\ndistrict in which Fort Monroe lies; two members appointed by the Hampton City\nCouncil; and eight nonlegislative citizen members appointed by the Governor,\nseven of whom shall have expertise relevant to the implementation of the Fort\nMonroe Reuse Plan, including but not limited to the fields of historic\npreservation, tourism, environment, real estate, finance, and education, and one\nof whom shall be a citizen representative from the Hampton Roads region. The\nSecretary of Natural and Historic Resources and the Secretary of Commerce and\nTrade shall serve ex officio without voting privileges and may send their\ndeputies or another cabinet member to meetings in the event that official duties\nrequire their presence elsewhere. Cabinet members and elected representatives\nshall serve terms commensurate with their terms of office. Legislative members\nmay send another legislator to meetings as full voting members in the event that\nofficial duties require their presence elsewhere.\n\t\tThe Board so appointed shall enter upon the performance of its duties and\nshall initially and annually thereafter elect one of its members as chairman and\nanother as vice-chairman. The Board shall also elect annually a secretary, who\nshall be a member of the Board, and a treasurer, who need not be a member of the\nBoard, or a secretary-treasurer, who need not be a member of the Board. The\nchairman, or in his absence the vice-chairman, shall preside at all meetings of\nthe Board, and in the absence of both the chairman and vice-chairman, the Board\nshall elect a chairman pro tempore who shall preside at such meetings. Seven\nTrustees shall constitute a quorum, and all action by the Board shall require\nthe affirmative vote of a majority of the Trustees present and voting, except\nthat any action to amend or terminate the existing Reuse Plan, or to adopt a new\nReuse Plan, shall require the affirmative vote of 75 percent or more of the\nTrustees present and voting. The members of the Board shall be entitled to\nreimbursement for expenses incurred in attendance upon meetings of the Board or\nwhile otherwise engaged in the discharge of their duties. Such expenses shall be\npaid out of the treasury of the Authority in such manner as shall be prescribed\nby the Authority.\n\nHISTORY: 2011, cc. 716, 780, 858; 2014, cc. 115, 490, 676, 681; 2017, cc. 215,\n732; 2021, Sp. 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