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This law was first created in 1956. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 254 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 1956 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. 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 2016, chapter 588<\/a>; in 2020, chapter 1047<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":186457,"object_type":"law","relational_id":76716,"identifier":"23.1-2503","token":"23.1\/IV\/25\/23.1-2503","url":"\/23.1-2503\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/23.1-2503\/","token":"23.1\/IV\/25\/23.1-2503","dublin_core":{"Title":"Power to receive gifts, grants, devises, and bequests","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 23.1-2503","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

The Institute, or the board on its behalf, may receive, take, hold, and enjoy any gift, grant, devise, or bequest made to the Institute or its board for charitable or educational purposes and use and administer any such gift, grant, devise, or bequest for the uses and purposes designated by the donor or for the general purposes of the Institute if no such designation is made.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nPOWER TO RECEIVE GIFTS, GRANTS, DEVISES, AND BEQUESTS (\u00a7 23.1-2503)\n\nThe Institute, or the board on its behalf, may receive, take, hold, and enjoy\nany gift, grant, devise, or bequest made to the Institute or its board for\ncharitable or educational purposes and use and administer any such gift, grant,\ndevise, or bequest for the uses and purposes designated by the donor or for the\ngeneral purposes of the Institute if no such designation is made.\n\nHISTORY: 1956, c. 254, \u00a7 23-100.1; 2016, c. 588; 2020, c. 1047.","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}}