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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>59014</law_id><section_number>23.1-2705</section_number><catch_line>Gifts, grants, devises, and bequests; governmental aid</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="27">Virginia State University</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> The board may take, hold, receive, and enjoy any gift, grant, devise, or bequest to the board or to or for the benefit of the University. Any such gift, grant, devise, or bequest shall be used for the purposes designated by the donor, or if no purposes are so designated, for the general purposes of the board. <a id="paragraph-216376" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/23.1-2705/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> The University shall receive the governmental aid designated in &#xA7;&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Institutions receiving interest accruing on proceeds of land scrip" href="/23.1-2638/">23.1-2638</a> and <a class="law" title="Institutions receiving money allotted to Commonwealth under act of Congress" href="/23.1-2639/">23.1-2639</a>. <a id="paragraph-216377" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/23.1-2705/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1919, &#xA7; 957, &#xA7; 23-170; 1930, p. 769; 1964, c. 70; 1979, c. 147; 2016, c. 588.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
