5. The legislature shall provide adequate funds for the proper carrying out of the
functions and duties of the state board of higher education.
6. a. The state board of higher education shall hold its first meeting at the office of the
state board of administration at Bismarck, on the 6th day of July, 1939, and shall
organize and elect one of its members as president of such board for a term of
one year. It shall also at said meeting, or as soon thereafter as may be
practicable, elect a competent person as secretary, who shall reside during his
term of office in the city of Bismarck, North Dakota. Said secretary shall hold
office at the will of the board. As soon as said board is established and
organized, it shall assume all the powers and perform all the duties now
conferred by law upon the board of administration in connection with the several
institutions hereinbefore mentioned, and the said board of administration shall
immediately upon the organization of said state board of higher education,
surrender and transfer to said state board of higher education all duties, rights,
and powers granted to it under the existing laws of this state concerning the
institutions hereinbefore mentioned, together with all property, deeds, records,
reports, and appurtenances of every kind belonging or appertaining to said
institutions.
b. The said state board of higher education shall have full authority over the
institutions under its control with the right, among its other powers, to prescribe,
limit, or modify the courses offered at the several institutions. In furtherance of
its powers, the state board of higher education shall have the power to delegate
to its employees details of the administration of the institutions under its control.
The said state board of higher education shall have full authority to organize or
reorganize within constitutional and statutory limitations, the work of each
institution under its control, and do each and everything necessary and proper
for the efficient and economic administration of said state educational
institutions.
c. Said board shall prescribe for all of said institutions standard systems of
accounts and records and shall biennially, and within six (6) months immediately
preceding the regular session of the legislature, make a report to the governor,
covering in detail the operations of the educational institutions under its control.
d. It shall be the duty of the heads of the several state institutions hereinbefore
mentioned, to submit the budget requests for the biennial appropriations for said
institutions to said state board of higher education; and said state board of
higher education shall consider said budgets and shall revise the same as in its
judgment shall be for the best interests of the educational system of the state;
and thereafter the state board of higher education shall prepare and present to
the state budget board and to the legislature a single unified budget covering the
needs of all the institutions under its control. "Said budget shall be prepared and
presented by the board of administration until the state board of higher
education organizes as provided in subsection 6a." The appropriations for all of
said institutions shall be contained in one legislative measure. The budgets and
appropriation measures for the agricultural experiment stations and their
substations and the extension division of the North Dakota state university of
agriculture and applied science may be separate from those of state educational
institutions.
e. The said state board of higher education shall have the control of the
expenditure of the funds belonging to, and allocated to such institutions and also
those appropriated by the legislature, for the institutions of higher education in
this state; provided, however, that funds appropriated by the legislature and
specifically designated for any one or more of such institutions, shall not be
used for any other institution.
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