37-127-1 - Creation. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 37-127-1. Creation.
 

A body politic and corporate is hereby created by the name of the "Mississippi Valley State College" to have perpetual succession, with power to contract and be contracted with, to receive by any legal method of transfer or conveyance, property of any description, to have, hold, and employ the same, to make and use a corporate seal, with power to break or change the same, and to adopt bylaws, rules and regulations for the government of its members, official agents, and employees. However, the name of said "Mississippi Valley State College" is hereafter changed to "Mississippi Valley State University," without interference with the rights, powers and prerogatives of said college which continue in all respects. Whenever the name "Mississippi Valley State College" appears, the same is construed to denote "Mississippi Valley State University." 
 

Sources: Codes, 1942, § 6814-01; Laws,  1946, ch. 327, § 1; Laws, 1964, ch. 416; Laws, 1974, ch. 367, § 5, eff from and after passage (approved March 15, 1974).