Title 23.1. Institutions of Higher Education; Other Educational and Cultural Institutions
Chapter 32. Museums and Other Cultural Institutions
§ 23.1-3217. Board of trustees.
A. The management and control of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and its building, contents, furnishings, grounds, and other properties is vested in a board of trustees (the board) composed of (i) the Governor, the Speaker of the House of Delegates, and the mayor of the City of Richmond, who shall serve ex officio, and (ii) at least 25 but not more than 35 nonlegislative citizen members. Nonlegislative citizen members shall be appointed by the Governor after consideration of a list of nominees from the Museum submitted at least 60 days before the expiration of the member's term for which the nominations are being made.
B. Nonlegislative citizen members shall be appointed for terms of five years. No nonlegislative citizen member is eligible to serve more than two consecutive five-year terms; however, a member appointed to serve an unexpired term is eligible to serve two consecutive five-year terms immediately succeeding such unexpired term.
C. Nine members shall constitute a quorum at any meeting and a majority vote of those members present shall control in all matters.
D. The board shall adopt bylaws governing its organization and procedure and may alter and amend the bylaws.
E. The board shall elect one of its members president of the Museum.
F. The board may provide for an executive committee composed of at least three members that may exercise the powers vested in it and perform the duties imposed upon it by the board.
1997, c. 367, §§ 23-253.1, 23-253.2, 23-253.3; 2010, c. 101; 2011, cc. 691, 714; 2016, c. 588; 2017, c. 314.
