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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>86377</law_id><section_number>23.1-2209</section_number><catch_line>Powers and duties</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="23.1">Institutions of Higher Education; Other Educational and Cultural Institutions</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="IV">Public Institutions of Higher Education</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="22">University of Virginia</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">General Provisions</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> The board shall (i) care for and preserve all property belonging to the University, (ii) grant to the president of the University supreme administrative direction over all the schools, colleges, divisions, and branches of the University, and (iii) examine the progress of the students in each year and give to those who excel in any course of study such honors as it deems proper. <a id="paragraph-309326" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/23.1-2209/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> The board may (i) remove the president of the University or any professor with the assent of two-thirds of its members, (ii) prescribe the duties of each professor and the course and mode of instruction, (iii) appoint a comptroller and proctor and employ any other agent or servant, (iv) regulate the renting of the rooms and dormitories, and (v) to enable the board to procure a supply of water and construct and maintain a <span class="dictionary">system</span> of waterworks, drainage, and sewerage for the University, acquire such springs, lands, and rights-of-way as may be necessary, according to the provisions of Title 25.1. <a id="paragraph-309327" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/23.1-2209/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1919, &#xA7;&#xA7; 811, 813, &#xA7;&#xA7; 23-76, 23-78; 1938, p. 442; 1956, cc. 12, 689; 2016, c. 588.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
