2017 Georgia Code
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

Universal Citation: GA Code § 20-3-31 (2017)
  • 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.
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