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The Governor is authorized and directed to issue commissions to the professors, assistant professors and other officers of the Virginia Military Institute, the Fishburne Military School, the Massanutten Military Academy, the Randolph-Macon Academy, and the Virginia Women’s Institute for Leadership at Mary Baldwin College, according to the rank prescribed by those institutions; and to the Commandant of Cadets and Assistant Commandants of Cadets of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Such persons shall be eligible to receive and to continue to hold such commissions, regardless of age, for so long as they continue to be officers, professors or assistant professors of the Virginia Military Institute, the Virginia Women’s Institute for Leadership at Mary Baldwin College, the Fishburne Military School, the Massanutten Military Academy, the Randolph-Macon Academy, or the Commandant of Cadets or Assistant Commandants of Cadets of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. The governing boards of each institution shall recommend to the Governor the rank to which such eligible persons shall be commissioned, but the following determination of such rank shall be made by the Governor. Commissions in such militia issued such persons by the Governor shall not entitle any person holding the same to any pay or emolument by reason thereof unless he be assigned to duty by order of the Governor with the Virginia National Guard; and in such event, the rank of such officer shall be relatively inferior to that of all other officers of the same grade in the Virginia National Guard.\n\n","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":1355065,"text":"The officers of the Virginia Military Institute, the Virginia Women’s Institute for Leadership at Mary Baldwin College, the Fishburne Military School, the Massanutten Military Academy, the Randolph-Macon Academy, and the Commandant of Cadets and Assistant Commandants of Cadets of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University shall be commissioned officers of the Virginia militia, unorganized, and subject to the orders of the Governor and the same rules and regulations as to discipline provided for other commissioned officers of the military organizations of the Commonwealth. The Governor is authorized and directed to issue commissions to the professors, assistant professors and other officers of the Virginia Military Institute, the Fishburne Military School, the Massanutten Military Academy, the Randolph-Macon Academy, and the Virginia Women’s Institute for Leadership at Mary Baldwin College, according to the rank prescribed by those institutions; and to the Commandant of Cadets and Assistant Commandants of Cadets of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Such persons shall be eligible to receive and to continue to hold such commissions, regardless of age, for so long as they continue to be officers, professors or assistant professors of the Virginia Military Institute, the Virginia Women’s Institute for Leadership at Mary Baldwin College, the Fishburne Military School, the Massanutten Military Academy, the Randolph-Macon Academy, or the Commandant of Cadets or Assistant Commandants of Cadets of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. The governing boards of each institution shall recommend to the Governor the rank to which such eligible persons shall be commissioned, but the following determination of such rank shall be made by the Governor. Commissions in such militia issued such persons by the Governor shall not entitle any person holding the same to any pay or emolument by reason thereof unless he be assigned to duty by order of the Governor with the Virginia National Guard; and in such event, the rank of such officer shall be relatively inferior to that of all other officers of the same grade in the Virginia National Guard.","type":"section","prefixes":[""],"prefix":"","entire_prefix":"","prefix_anchor":"","level":1}},"ancestry":[{"id":51906,"edition_id":2,"name":"General Provisions","identifier":"13","label":"article","depth":3,"order_by":16,"parent_id":51899,"metadata":{"child_laws":10,"child_structures":0},"date_created":"2026-08-02 02:50:52","date_modified":"2026-08-02 12:33:31","permalink":{"id":1448737,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":51906,"identifier":"13","token":"44\/1\/13","url":"\/44\/1\/13\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}},{"id":51899,"edition_id":2,"name":"Military Laws of Virginia","identifier":"1","label":"chapter","depth":2,"order_by":1,"parent_id":51898,"metadata":{"child_laws":150,"child_structures":16},"date_created":"2026-08-02 02:50:49","date_modified":"2026-08-02 12:33:29","permalink":{"id":1448553,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":51899,"identifier":"1","token":"44\/1","url":"\/44\/1\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}},{"id":51898,"edition_id":2,"name":"Military and Emergency Laws","identifier":"44","label":"title","depth":1,"order_by":97,"parent_id":null,"metadata":{"child_laws":233,"child_structures":28},"date_created":"2026-08-02 02:50:49","date_modified":"2026-08-02 12:33:29","permalink":{"id":1448551,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":51898,"identifier":"44","token":"44","url":"\/44\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}}],"structure_contents":[{"id":363742,"structure_id":51906,"section_number":"44-115","catch_line":"Custom and usage of United States army, air force and navy; applicability of \u00a7\u00a7 44-40, 44-40.01 and Article 4 (\u00a7 44-42 et seq.)","url":"\/44-115\/","token":"44\/1\/13\/44-115","metadata":false},{"id":363743,"structure_id":51906,"section_number":"44-116","catch_line":"Repealed","url":"\/44-116\/","token":"44\/1\/13\/44-116","metadata":false},{"id":363745,"structure_id":51906,"section_number":"44-117","catch_line":"Officers of Virginia Military Institute, the Virginia Women's Institute for Leadership at Mary Baldwin College, the Fishburne Military School, the Massanutten Military Academy, the Randolph-Macon Academy, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University to be officers of militia","url":"\/44-117\/","token":"44\/1\/13\/44-117","metadata":false},{"id":363744,"structure_id":51906,"section_number":"44-117.1","catch_line":"Repealed","url":"\/44-117.1\/","token":"44\/1\/13\/44-117.1","metadata":false},{"id":363746,"structure_id":51906,"section_number":"44-119","catch_line":"Retired list of officers, warrant officers and enlisted persons","url":"\/44-119\/","token":"44\/1\/13\/44-119","metadata":false},{"id":363750,"structure_id":51906,"section_number":"44-120","catch_line":"Protection of the uniform","url":"\/44-120\/","token":"44\/1\/13\/44-120","metadata":false},{"id":363748,"structure_id":51906,"section_number":"44-120.1","catch_line":"Manufacture of Virginia military medals and decorations in United States","url":"\/44-120.1\/","token":"44\/1\/13\/44-120.1","metadata":false},{"id":363749,"structure_id":51906,"section_number":"44-120.2","catch_line":"Commonwealth's Twenty marksmanship award","url":"\/44-120.2\/","token":"44\/1\/13\/44-120.2","metadata":false},{"id":363751,"structure_id":51906,"section_number":"44-121","catch_line":"Repealed","url":"\/44-121\/","token":"44\/1\/13\/44-121","metadata":false},{"id":363752,"structure_id":51906,"section_number":"44-122","catch_line":"Citation of chapter","url":"\/44-122\/","token":"44\/1\/13\/44-122","metadata":false}],"previous_section":{"id":363743,"structure_id":51906,"section_number":"44-116","catch_line":"Repealed","url":"\/44-116\/","token":"44\/1\/13\/44-116","metadata":false},"next_section":{"id":363744,"structure_id":51906,"section_number":"44-117.1","catch_line":"Repealed","url":"\/44-117.1\/","token":"44\/1\/13\/44-117.1","metadata":false},"metadata":false,"official_url":"https:\/\/law.lis.virginia.gov\/vacode\/44-117\/","history_text":"

The record of this law\u2019s original creation isn\u2019t available online. It has been modified 6 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 1958, chapter 393; in 1978, chapter 384; in 2001, chapter 77<\/a>; in 2006, chapter 123<\/a>; in 2007, chapter 818<\/a>; in 2025, chapter 139<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":1448747,"object_type":"law","relational_id":363745,"identifier":"44-117","token":"44\/1\/13\/44-117","url":"\/44-117\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/44-117\/","token":"44\/1\/13\/44-117","dublin_core":{"Title":"Officers of Virginia Military Institute, the Virginia Women’s Institute for Leadership at Mary Baldwin College, the Fishburne Military School, the Massanutten Military Academy, the Randolph-Macon Academy, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University to be officers of militia","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 44-117","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

The officers of the Virginia Military Institute, the Virginia Women’s Institute for Leadership at Mary Baldwin College, the Fishburne Military School, the Massanutten Military Academy, the Randolph-Macon Academy, and the Commandant of Cadets and Assistant Commandants of Cadets of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University shall be commissioned officers of the Virginia militia, unorganized, and subject to the orders<\/span> of the Governor and the same rules and regulations as to discipline provided for other commissioned officers of the military organizations of the Commonwealth. The Governor is authorized and directed to issue<\/span> commissions to the professors, assistant professors and other officers of the Virginia Military Institute, the Fishburne Military School, the Massanutten Military Academy, the Randolph-Macon Academy, and the Virginia Women’s Institute for Leadership at Mary Baldwin College, according to the rank prescribed by those institutions; and to the Commandant of Cadets and Assistant Commandants of Cadets of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Such persons shall be eligible to receive and to continue to hold such commissions, regardless of age, for so long as they continue to be officers, professors or assistant professors of the Virginia Military Institute, the Virginia Women’s Institute for Leadership at Mary Baldwin College, the Fishburne Military School, the Massanutten Military Academy, the Randolph-Macon Academy, or the Commandant of Cadets or Assistant Commandants of Cadets of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. The governing boards of each institution shall recommend to the Governor the rank to which such eligible persons shall be commissioned, but the following determination of such rank shall be made by the Governor. Commissions in such militia issued such persons by the Governor shall not entitle any person holding the same to any pay or emolument by reason thereof unless he be assigned to duty by order<\/span> of the Governor with the Virginia National Guard; and in such event, the rank of such officer shall be relatively inferior to that of all other officers of the same grade in the Virginia National Guard.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nOFFICERS OF VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE, THE VIRGINIA WOMEN’S INSTITUTE\nFOR LEADERSHIP AT MARY BALDWIN COLLEGE, THE FISHBURNE MILITARY SCHOOL, THE\nMASSANUTTEN MILITARY ACADEMY, THE RANDOLPH-MACON ACADEMY, AND VIRGINIA\nPOLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY TO BE OFFICERS OF MILITIA (\u00a7 44-117)\n\nThe officers of the Virginia Military Institute, the Virginia Women’s\nInstitute for Leadership at Mary Baldwin College, the Fishburne Military School,\nthe Massanutten Military Academy, the Randolph-Macon Academy, and the Commandant\nof Cadets and Assistant Commandants of Cadets of the Virginia Polytechnic\nInstitute and State University shall be commissioned officers of the Virginia\nmilitia, unorganized, and subject to the orders of the Governor and the same\nrules and regulations as to discipline provided for other commissioned officers\nof the military organizations of the Commonwealth. The Governor is authorized\nand directed to issue commissions to the professors, assistant professors and\nother officers of the Virginia Military Institute, the Fishburne Military\nSchool, the Massanutten Military Academy, the Randolph-Macon Academy, and the\nVirginia Women’s Institute for Leadership at Mary Baldwin College,\naccording to the rank prescribed by those institutions; and to the Commandant of\nCadets and Assistant Commandants of Cadets of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute\nand State University. Such persons shall be eligible to receive and to continue\nto hold such commissions, regardless of age, for so long as they continue to be\nofficers, professors or assistant professors of the Virginia Military Institute,\nthe Virginia Women’s Institute for Leadership at Mary Baldwin College, the\nFishburne Military School, the Massanutten Military Academy, the Randolph-Macon\nAcademy, or the Commandant of Cadets or Assistant Commandants of Cadets of\nVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. The governing boards of\neach institution shall recommend to the Governor the rank to which such eligible\npersons shall be commissioned, but the following determination of such rank\nshall be made by the Governor. Commissions in such militia issued such persons\nby the Governor shall not entitle any person holding the same to any pay or\nemolument by reason thereof unless he be assigned to duty by order of the\nGovernor with the Virginia National Guard; and in such event, the rank of such\nofficer shall be relatively inferior to that of all other officers of the same\ngrade in the Virginia National Guard.\n\nHISTORY: 1930, p. 970; Michie Code 1942, \u00a7 2673(102); 1958, c. 393; 1978, c.\n384; 2001, c. 77; 2006, c. 123; 2007, c. 818; 2025, c. 139.","edition":{"id":2,"name":"2026","slug":"2026","date_created":"2026-07-16 18:40:23","date_modified":"2026-08-02 15:14:36","current":1,"order_by":2,"last_import":"2026-08-02 12:37:30"}}