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AN ACT concerning the trustees of Indiana university, the trustees of Purdue university, and the board of trustees of the Indiana state normal school, authorizing the trustees of said corporations to erect, furnish, control and manage dormitories in connection with Indiana university, Purdue university, the Indiana state normal school at Terre Haute and the Indiana state normal school, Ball teachers' college, eastern division at Muncie, respectively, and to use, acquire and hold property for such purpose; to issue and sell bonds to provide funds for said purpose and providing tax exemption for said property and bonds, providing how such bonds and the interest thereon shall be secured and paid; and further authorizing said corporations to provide heat, light, power and other facilities for such dormitories; and declaring an emergency.10

[H. 338. Approved March 9, 1927.]

State Universities and Normal Schools-Establishment and Control of Dormitories by Trustees.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of the State of Indiana, That the trustees of Indiana university, the trustees of Purdue university and the board of trustees of the Indiana state normal school are hereby respectively authorized and empowered, from time to time, and as such trustees shall find a necessity therefor exists, to erect, construct, equip, furnish, operate, control and manage dormitories at or in connection with Indiana university, Purdue university, the Indiana state normal school at Terre Haute and the Indiana state normal school, Ball teachers' college, eastern division at Muncie, for the purposes of said respective institutions; and the said trustees are further respectively authorized and empowered to acquire, under this or any other law, now in force or hereafter enacted, by purchase, lease, condemnation, gift or otherwise, such property, real or personal, as, in the judgment of said respective trustees, shall be necessary for such purposes and the said trustees are further respectively authorized and empowered to use any real or personal property heretofore acquired by said trustees for such purposes. Title to all property so acquired, including the improvements thereon, shall be taken and held by and in the name of the said trustees in their corporate capacities for the purposes of this act.

10. Acts 1927, p. 425.

Issuance of Bonds to Acquire Sites and Erect Buildings.

SEC. 2. For the purpose of raising funds for the acquisition of such property and the erection, construction and completion of dormitories thereon, said trustees are further respectively authorized and empowered to issue and sell bonds of said institutions, which bonds, and the interest thereon may be secured by pledge or mortgage of any property, real or personal, used or acquired or to be acquired and used for dormitory purposes and the improvements made or to be made thereon, or by pledge or mortgage of the net income from said property, or by pledge or mortgage of said property and the net income therefrom, as said trustees may determine; and the lien of said pledge or mortgage, to the extent thereof, as determined and provided by said respective trustees, and as herein authorized, shall be a first and primary lien for the payment of said bonds and the interest thereon. Said bonds. may be issued for such amount or amounts as said trustees shall determine, not however to exceed the total estimated cost of acquiring property for and erecting, constructing and completing and furnishing any proposed dormitory or dormitories as such respective trustees shall find such cost to be. Said bonds may be issued in such denominations and with such maturities and for such rate of interest as such respective trustees may fix and determine, and, in the discretion of said respective trustees, said bonds may be sold either privately or at public letting, but shall not be sold for less than the par value thereof. Said bonds and the pledge or mortgage securing the same, shall be issued and made in the name, and on behalf of such respective corporations by such officer or officers as said trustees shall respectively designate.

Nature and Extent of Liability Defined.

SEC. 3. No indebtedness, bond or obligation incurred or created under the authority of this act shall be or become a lien, charge or liability against the State of Indiana nor against the said respective corporations, nor against the property or funds of the state or said respective corporations, except to the extent of the property or income hereinabove authorized to be pledged or mortgaged.

Facilities and Service to Dormitories.

SEC. 4. Said respective trustees may, in their discretion, furnish heat, light, power and other like facilities or service

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to any or all of said dormitories from the plant or plants or facilities of the respective institutions, with or without charge therefor.

Use of Property-Bonds Exempt from Taxation.

SEC. 5. All property acquired under authority of this act, or used for the purposes herein provided, and all bonds issued under the authority hereinabove given, together with the interest thereon, shall be exempt from taxation.

Effect of This Act as to Laws in Force.

SEC. 6. This act shall not be construed to repeal, modify or amend any law of this state now in force, but shall be deemed as supplemental thereto.

Emergency.

SEC. 7. Whereas an emergency exists for the immediate taking effect of this act, the same shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage.

6444.

EDUCATION-SCHOOLS

ARTICLE 2.—ADMINISTRATION.

2. STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION.

[Acts 1913, p. 37. In force April 30, 1913.]

State board, how composed, powers.-7. The state board of education shall consist of the superintendent of public instruction, the presidents of Purdue university, the state university and the state normal school, the superintendents of schools of the three cities having the largest enumeration of children for school purposes annually reported to the state superintendent of public instruction, as provided by law, three citizens actively engaged in educational work in the state, at least one of whom shall be a county superintendent of school, and three persons actively interested in, and of known sympathy with, vocational education, one of whom shall be a representative of employes and one of employers.

The governor shall appoint the members of the board, except the ex officio members, for a term of four years.

The

In the first instance, one member shall be appointed for two years, one for three years and one for four years. present appointive members shall serve until the expiration of the time for which they were appointed. The governor

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shall fill all vacancies occurring in the board for the unexpired term, and each member shall serve until his successor shall have been appointed and qualified.

The superintendent of public instruction shall, ex officio, be president of the board, and, in his absence, the members present shall elect a president pro tempore. The board shall elect one of its members secretary and treasurer, who shall have the custody of its records, papers and effects, and shall keep minutes of its proceedings. The records, papers, effects and minutes shall be kept at the office of the superintendent, and shall be open for inspection. The board shall meet upon the call of the president, or a majority of its members, at such place in the state as may be designated in the call. They shall adopt and use a seal, on the face of which shall be the words "Indiana state board of education," or such other device or motto as the board may direct, an impression and written description of which shall be recorded on the minutes of the board and filed in the office of the secretary of state, which seal shall be used for the authentication of the acts of the board and the important acts of the superintendent of public instruction.

The board shall have all the powers and perform all the duties now imposed by law on the state board of education. Power of legislature to confer French v. State ex rel., 141 Ind. upon boards composed of state 618, 41 N. E. 2.

[Acts 1865, p. 3. In force March 24, 1865.]

6445. Pay and mileage of board.-156. The members of said board, other than the governor and state superintendent of public instruction, shall be entitled to receive for their services, while actually engaged in the duties of their office, five dollars per day and five cents per mile necessarily traveled while so engaged; which amount shall be certified by the board to the auditor of the state, who shall draw his warrant therefor, payable out of the general fund, which sum shall be reimbursed to the general fund by the treasurer of the board paying into it that amount out of the money received by him as fees for certificates; and if there be any residue of money received as such fees, it shall be expended by the superintendent of public instruction in the purchase of suitable books for an office library. Said board shall be allowed the necessary

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expenses incurred in the discharge of the duties required of the same, for clerk hire, postage, etc., which expenses shall be paid as the expenses of the members of the board are paid. [As amended, Acts 1873, p. 68.]

6446. Duties and powers.-154. Said board, at its meetings, shall perform such duties as are prescribed by law, and may make and adopt such rules, by-laws and regulations as may be necessary for its own government, and for the complete carrying into effect the provisions of the next section of this act, and not in conflict with the laws of the state; and shall take cognizance of such questions as may arise in the practical administration of the school system not otherwise provided for, and duly consider, discuss and determine the

same.

6447. State teachers' certificates.-155. Said board may grant state certificates of qualification to such teachers as may, upon a thorough and critical examination, be found to possess eminent scholarship and professional ability, and shall furnish satisfactory evidence of good moral character. They shall hold stated meetings, at which they shall examine all applicants, and those found to possess the qualifications herein above named shall receive such certificate, signed by the president of the board, and impressed with the seal thereof; and the said certificate shall entitle the holder to teach in any of the schools of the state without further examination, and shall also be valid during the lifetime of said holder, unless revoked by the said board. Each applicant for examination shall, on making application, pay to the treasurer of the board five dollars as a fee.

Licensing of teachers, sections 6946-6963.

The life license authorized to be granted to school teachers by the state board of education may be regarded as the highest rank of any licenses authorized to be granted to a teacher. State ex rel. v. Bradt, 170 Ind. 480, 84 N. E. 1084.

Section 6312, Burns' R. S. 1914, was superseded by section 15 of

the act of 1919 (Acts 1919, p. 753), which was, in turn, superseded by Acts 1923, p. 36, §§6946-6963.

Sections 6313 to 6318, Burns' R. S. 1914, were repealed by Acts 1919, p. 758, §16; which was, in turn, superseded by Acts 1923, p. 36, §§6946-6963.

Sections 6318a to 6318p, Burns' Supp. 1921, were repealed by the new law for the licensing of teachers. Acts 1923, p. 36; §§6946-6963.