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Statutes > Virginia > Title-23 > Chapter-4 > 23-38§ 23-38. Service in armed forces discharges obligation to render services toCommonwealth in consideration of scholarship.
Service by any person in any of the armed forces of the United States as anofficer, private or nurse, or in any other capacity, regardless of length ofservice, in time of war or other declared national emergency, is a completeand final discharge of any obligation of such person to serve theCommonwealth as a teacher in the public schools, or in any other capacity,including any such obligation which has been reduced or computed into termsof a monetary obligation in lieu of such service, arising by virtue of anystatute or of any contract entered into between such person and anystate-owned or state-supported institution of higher learning, inconsideration of any state scholarship awarded to or received by such personas a student in such institution; provided, that such service is terminatedby an honorable or medical discharge; provided, further, that such personshall have entered such service with the armed forces within four years afterleaving such state-owned or state-operated institution.
(1942, p. 504; Michie Code 1942, § 997c.)
