CHAPTER 114. CHIROPRACTIC COLLEGE - Texas Statutes

EDUCATION CODE

TITLE 3. HIGHER EDUCATION

SUBTITLE F. OTHER COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES

CHAPTER 114. CHIROPRACTIC COLLEGE

Sec. 114.001. CHIROPRACTIC COLLEGE.

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Chiropractic College

(a) The chiropractic college formerly constituting the Texas

Chiropractic College, operated as a nonprofit corporation and

transferred to the state pursuant to an Act of the 76th

Legislature, Regular Session, 1999, is a component of the higher

education institution to which the Texas Chiropractic College was

transferred under that Act and is under the management and

control of the governing board of that institution of higher

education.

(b) The governing board has the same powers and duties

concerning the institution as are conferred on it by law

concerning any component institution of the institution of higher

education.

Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 404, Sec. 9; Acts 1999, 76th

Leg., ch. 1569, Sec. 9.

Sec. 114.002. POWERS OF THE BOARD.

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Chiropractic College

(a) The governing board may:

(1) provide for the training and teaching of students seeking to

become:

(A) chiropractors; or

(B) other technicians who provide services related to the

practice of chiropractic medicine;

(2) prescribe courses leading to degrees customarily offered in

other leading United States chiropractic schools;

(3) award the degrees described by Subdivision (2);

(4) enter into an affiliation or coordinating agreement with an

entity if reasonably necessary or desirable for the operation of

a first-class school of chiropractic medicine;

(5) make joint appointments with another institution of higher

education; and

(6) adopt rules for the operation, control, and management of

the institution as necessary for the operation of a first-class

school of chiropractic medicine, including rules governing the

number of students that may be admitted to any program at the

institution.

(b) The salary of a person who received a joint appointment

under Subsection (a)(5) must be apportioned among the

institutions to which the individual is appointed on the basis of

the services rendered.

Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 404, Sec. 9; Acts 1999, 76th

Leg., ch. 1569, Sec. 9.