A body politic and corporate is hereby created by the name of the “Jackson 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 “Jackson State College” is hereafter changed to “Jackson State University,” without interference with the rights, powers and prerogatives of said college which continue in all respects. Whenever the name “Jackson State College” appears, the same is construed to denote “Jackson State University.”
Miss. Code Ann. § 37-125-1
Creation
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Whiting v. Jackson State University (1980)
Most recently applied in 133 F. Supp. 3d 865 - Canon v. Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning (September 2015)
Codes, 1942, §§ 6808, 6808-01; Laws, 1940, ch. 185; Laws, 1944, ch. 159, § 1; Laws, 1956, ch. 293; Laws, 1974, ch. 367, § 4, eff from and after passage (approved March 15, 1974
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