                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

CORPORATE NAME; NAME OF THE UNIVERSITY (§ 23.1-2600)

A. The board of visitors of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
(the board) is a corporation under the name and style of &#8220;Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State University&#8221; and has, in addition to its
other powers, all the corporate powers given to corporations by the provisions
of Title 13.1 except those powers that are confined to corporations created
pursuant to Title 13.1. The board shall at all times be under the control of the
General Assembly.

B. The institution shall be known as Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University (the University).

C. All laws relating to Virginia Polytechnic Institute, its predecessors, its
board of visitors, or the board of visitors of each of its predecessors shall be
construed as relating to the University.

HISTORY: Code 1919, § 860, § 23-114; 1944, p. 341; 1970, c. 98; 2016, c. 588.