For the purpose of developing competent leadership, developing character, training for useful citizenship, fostering patriotism, and of providing and encouraging the development of organized recreational activities for Future Farmers of America and Future Homemakers of America members, and other youth and adult groups, a camp and conference center is hereby established.
The West Virginia Board of Education is hereby authorized to secure a site for the camp and conference center at some suitable place and provide the necessary buildings and equipment therefor.
The camp and conference center shall be operated by the division of vocational education of the West Virginia Board of Education. The camp and conference center may be rented for educational purposes only and the rent received therefor shall be deposited in the State Treasury and paid out on requisition of the division of vocational education of the West Virginia Board of Education for the maintenance and operation of the camp and conference center.
The minimum salary requirements in sections eight-a and eighteen, article four, chapter eighteen-a of this code do not apply to service employees who are initially employed on or after July 1, 2014 by the division of vocational education to provide services at the camp and conference center.
Any appropriations now or hereafter made by the Legislature to carry out the provisions and purposes of this section shall be expended through the West Virginia Board of Education.
The West Virginia Board of Education may receive and use such gifts and donations of money, land, buildings, materials, equipment, supplies and labor, either from public or private sources, as may be offered unconditionally or under such conditions as in the judgment of the West Virginia Board of Education are proper and consistent with the provisions of this section.
All the money received as gifts and donations, by the West Virginia Board of Education shall be deposited in the State Treasury to be used by the said Board of Education in establishing and maintaining the aforesaid camp and conference center. A report of all gifts and donations offered and accepted, together with the names of the donors and the amounts contributed by each and all disbursements therefrom shall be submitted annually to the Governor of the state by the West Virginia Board of Education.
The county commission of any county may appropriate and expend money from the general county fund, or from any special fund available for such purpose, to erect and equip a cottage or county building on the camp and conference center property.
Structure West Virginia Code
Article 2. State Board of Education
§18-2-1. Creation; Composition; Appointment, Qualifications, Terms and Removal of Members; Offices
§18-2-3. Meetings; Compensation and Expenses of Members
§18-2-4. Organization; Appointment, Compensation and Duties of Secretary
§18-2-5a. Board Rules to Be Filed With Legislature
§18-2-5b. Medicaid-Eligible Children; School Health Services Advisory Committee
§18-2-5d. Duty of Board to Report Guidelines for Productive and Safe Schools
§18-2-5e. Higher Education Participation in Development and Use of Public Education Assessments
§18-2-5f. Use of Student Social Security Numbers
§18-2-5h. Student Data Accessibility, Transparency and Accountability Act
§18-2-6a. Sale of Healthy Beverages and Soft Drinks in Schools
§18-2-7. Courses of Study; Language of Instruction
§18-2-7a. Legislative Findings; Required Physical Education; Program in Physical Fitness
§18-2-7b. Programs in Drug Prevention and Violence Reduction
§18-2-7c. Program in Personal Finance
§18-2-7d. Program in Workforce Preparedness
§18-2-7f. Alternative Educational Opportunities for Elective Course Credit
§18-2-8. Course of Study in Fire Prevention
§18-2-8a. Hunter Safety Orientation Program
§18-2-8b. West Virginia Remembers Program; Rulemaking
§18-2-9. Required Courses of Instruction
§18-2-9a. Elective Courses of Instruction on the Bible
§18-2-10. Certificates and Awards
§18-2-11. Sabbatical Leaves for Teachers and Certain Aides
§18-2-12. Computer Science Courses of Instruction; Learning Standards; State Board Plan Development
§18-2-13. Character Education Integration
§18-2-13a. Control of Property and Business Affairs of State Educational Institutions
§18-2-13c. Payroll Deductions for Employees' Participation in Group Insurance Plans
§18-2-13d. Marshall University
§18-2-13e. Transfer of Property for the Use of Marshall University
§18-2-25b. Emergency Action Plans for Athletics
§18-2-25c. Defibrillator Required at Certain Events
§18-2-26. Abolishment and Transition of Regional Education Service Agencies
§18-2-27. Authority to Contract for Programs, Services and Facilities
§18-2-29. Competitive Grant Program for Selected Schools and School Districts
§18-2-32. Posthumous High School Diplomas
§18-2-33. Rules for Antihazing
§18-2-35. Dress Codes Requiring School Uniforms for Students
§18-2-36. Framework for Initiating Comprehensive Transformation of School Leadership
§18-2-39. College and Career Readiness Initiative
§18-2-40. Suicide Prevention Awareness Training; Dissemination of Information
§18-2-40a. Education on and Prevention of Self-Harm Behavior and Eating Disorders
§18-2-41. Education and Prevention of the Sexual Abuse of Children
§18-2-43. Addressing Disciplinary Action in West Virginia Schools