Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 20. EDUCATION · Chapter 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION · Article 2. BOARD OF REGENTS AND UNIVERSITY SYSTEM · Part 1. BOARD OF REGENTS

20-3-31. General powers.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia.

The board of regents shall have power:
(1)
To make such reasonable rules and regulations as are necessary for the performance of its duties;#
(2)
To elect or appoint professors, educators, stewards, or any other officers necessary for all of the schools in the university system, as may be authorized by the General Assembly; to discontinue or remove them as the good of the system or any of its schools or institutions or stations may require; and to fix their compensations;#
(3)
To establish all such schools of learning or art as may be useful to the state and to organize them in the way most likely to attain the ends desired; and#
(4)
To exercise any power usually granted to such corporation, necessary to its usefulness, which is not in conflict with the Constitution and laws of this state.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Ga. L. 1931, p. 7, § 61; Code 1933, § 32-121.

Cross references

Powers of board of regents as to construction, operation, and other requirements for dormitories for university system, § 8-3-17. Restriction on power of members of board of regents to contract with state supported institutions, § 45-10-40 et seq. Filing with Secretary of State of conveyances of property to or from board of regents, § 50-16-123.

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