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164.830 Powers of board.
(1)
(2)
The board of trustees of the University of Louisville shall constitute a body
corporate, with the usual corporate powers, and shall possess all the
authorities, immunities, rights, privileges, and franchises usually attaching to
the governing bodies of Kentucky public higher educational institutions. Powers
of the board shall include the following:
(a) Appointment of a president, all faculty members, and other personnel and
determination of the compensation, duties, and official relations of each.
No relative of a board of trustee member shall be employed by the
university.
(b) Suspension or removal of the president, officers, faculty, agents, or other
personnel that it is authorized to appoint, except that no president,
professor, or teacher shall be removed except for incompetence, neglect
of or refusal to perform his duty, or for immoral conduct and that the
removal shall be made in accordance with procedures established by law
for state institutions.
(c) Election of a vice chairperson and any other officers as it deems wise,
including the annual election of a six (6) member executive committee
which shall have the powers that the board delegates to it and shall
operate under the rules the board shall establish under its authority to
make bylaws, rules, and regulations consistent with this chapter. The
committee shall have one (1) member representing the students, faculty,
and nonteaching personnel with the group alternating each year. The
initial appointment to the executive committee after May 30, 1997, shall
be a faculty member, to be followed by a student and a nonteaching
personnel, respectively.
(d) Receipt, retention, and administration, on behalf of the university, subject
to the conditions attached, all revenues accruing from endowments,
appropriations, allotments, grants or bequests, and all types of property.
(e) Requirement of reports from the president, officers, faculty, and
employees as it deems necessary and proper from time to time.
(f) Granting degrees to graduates of the university, prescription of conditions
upon which postgraduate honors may be obtained, and conferment of
honorary degrees.
(g) The board shall periodically evaluate the institution's progress in
implementing its missions, goals, and objectives to conform to the
strategic agenda. Officers and officials shall be held accountable for the
status of the institution's progress.
The provisions of KRS 164.030, 164.200, and 164.410, shall be applicable to
the University of Louisville except where inconsistent with the purposes of KRS
164.810 to 164.870.
Effective:May 30, 1997
History: Amended 1997 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 1, sec. 126, effective May
30, 1997. -- Amended 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 10, sec. 15, effective July 1, 1992. -Amended 1988 Ky. Acts ch. 257, sec. 5, effective July 15, 1988. -- Created 1970
Ky. Acts ch. 65, sec. 3.
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