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This law was first created in 1968. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 93 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. Unfortunately, the 1968 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 1 time. 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. That modification is as follows: in 2016, chapter 588<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":186269,"object_type":"law","relational_id":69538,"identifier":"23.1-2300","token":"23.1\/IV\/23\/23.1-2300","url":"\/23.1-2300\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/23.1-2300\/","token":"23.1\/IV\/23\/23.1-2300","dublin_core":{"Title":"Corporate name; name of the University","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 23.1-2300","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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B.<\/span> The institution shall be known as Virginia Commonwealth University (the University). <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nCORPORATE NAME; NAME OF THE UNIVERSITY (\u00a7 23.1-2300)\n\nA. The board of visitors of Virginia Commonwealth University (the board) is a\ncorporation under the name and style of “Virginia Commonwealth\nUniversity” and has, in addition to its other powers, all the corporate\npowers given to corporations by the provisions of Title 13.1 except those powers\nthat are confined to corporations created pursuant to Title 13.1. The board\nshall at all times be under the control of the General Assembly.\n\nB. The institution shall be known as Virginia Commonwealth University (the\nUniversity).\n\nHISTORY: 1968, c. 93, \u00a7\u00a7 23-50.4, 23-50.8; 2016, c. 588.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}