Senate Bill 2560

AN ACT TO BRING FORWARD SECTIONS 37-117-1, 37-117-3, 37-117-5, 37-117-7, 37-117-9 AND 37-117-11, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, RELATING TO THE MISSISSIPPI UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN FOR PURPOSES OF POSSIBLE AMENDMENT; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:

SECTION 1. Section 37-117-1, Mississippi Code of 1972, is brought forward as follows:

37-117-1. The institution incorporated by the act of the Legislature, approved March 12, 1884, and established in pursuance thereof, shall continue to exist as a body politic and corporate by the name of the "Mississippi College for Women," with all its property and franchises, rights, powers and privileges conferred on it by law, or properly incident to such a body and necessary to accomplish the purpose of its creation; said college may receive and hold all real estate and personal property conveyed or given to it for such purposes. However, the name "Mississippi State College for Women" is hereafter changed to "Mississippi University for Women," without interference with the rights, powers and prerogatives of said college which continue in all respects. Whenever the name "Mississippi College for Women" appears the same is construed to denote "Mississippi University for Women."

SECTION 2. Section 37-117-3, Mississippi Code of 1972, is brought forward as follows:

37-117-3. The purpose and aim of the Mississippi State College for Women is the moral and intellectual advancement of the girls of the state by the maintenance of a first-class institution for their education in the arts and sciences, for their training in normal school methods and kindergarten, for their instruction in bookkeeping, photography, stenography, telegraphy, and typewriting, and in designing, drawing, engraving, and painting, and their industrial application, and for their instruction in fancy, general and practical needlework, and in such other industrial branches as experience, from time to time, shall suggest as necessary or proper to fit them for the practical affairs of life.

SECTION 3. Section 37-117-5, Mississippi Code of 1972, is brought forward as follows:

37-117-5. The right belongs to each county to have a number of girls admitted, proportionate to its number of educable girls as compared with the whole number in the state. The total attendance at any session shall not exceed the entire allotment to the several counties for such session.

SECTION 4. Section 37-117-7, Mississippi Code of 1972, is brought forward as follows:

37-117-7. The apportionment of students to be admitted to the Mississippi State College for Women shall be made and announced by the president of the college annually, and communicated to the county superintendents of education by the first of August, or as soon thereafter as practicable. No applicant under sixteen years of age shall be admitted to the institution.

SECTION 5. Section 37-117-9, Mississippi Code of 1972, is brought forward as follows:

37-117-9. The superintendent of education of each county, after due notice published, shall examine applicants, not qualified to enter by certificate from an accredited school, upon questions prepared and submitted by the president of the Mississippi State College for Women, and, with the consent of the board of supervisors, shall give certificates of selection to the number of girls to which his county is entitled, in addition to those already in the said college, if any. County superintendents shall make their appointments of students to the said college not later than July 1 of each year.

The certificate of selection shall be attested by the clerk of the board of supervisors, under its seal, and shall entitle the holder to admission into the said college, with all the privileges thereof, to pursue all the industrial branches selected, and to enter the subclass or class for which she is fitted.

SECTION 6. Section 37-117-11, Mississippi Code of 1972, is brought forward as follows:

37-117-11. The privilege of rooming in the dormitories at the Mississippi State College for Women belongs to the free students, and to the due quota of girls from each county, in preference to all others. The basis of apportionment is hereby fixed at the present dormitory capacity. However, this provision shall not be construed to exclude pupils from free tuition who pay their board elsewhere.

SECTION 7. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2024.