No. V-0054 (1947).

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Texas Attorney General Opinions 1947. No. V-0054 (1947). 1Jan. 28, 1947Hon. S. B. Whittenburg, PresidentBoard of RegentsTexas State College for Womenc/o Amarillo TimesAmarillo, TexasOpinion No. V-54Re: Local funds or institutional receipts, expenditure of for research purposes by Board of Regents of Texas State College for Women.Dear Sir:We acknowledge your letter of recent date wherein you request an opinion of this Department concerning the following submitted question:
"Does the Board of Regents of the Texas State College for Women have authority to authorize expenditure of its local or general funds for research purposes?"
Article 2654d, V.A.C.S., providing for the control of the type of funds in question by the governing board of State institutions of higher learning provides in part as follows:
"Sec. 1. The governing boards of ... including ... College of Industrial Arts ..., may retain control respectively of the following sums of money collected at each of said several institutions in carrying out the functions of an educational institution, such as funds collected from student fees of all kinds; charges for use of rooms and dormitories, receipts from meals, cafes and cafeterias, fees on deposit refundable to students under certain conditions; receipts from school athletic activities; income from student publications or other student activities; receipts from sale of publication products and miscellaneous supplies and equipment; students' voluntary deposit of money with said school for safekeeping; all other fees and local institutional income of a strictly local nature arising out of and by virtue of the educational activities or
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research or demonstration carried out by each and all of said several schools.
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"Sec. 8a. No part of any of these funds shall ever be used to increase any salary beyond the sum fixed by the Legislature in the appropriations bill, and this law shall be subordinate and subservient to the biennial appropriation bill for the support of the several institutions herein mentioned." (Underscoring ours)
Under Article 2624, as amended by Acts 1945, 49th Legislature, Ch. 156 and 171, pages 203 and 208, the name "College of Industrial Arts" was changed to "Texas State College for Women." Acts 1945, 49th Legislature, Ch. 377, Appropriations -- Educational Institutions, General...

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