may be divided into divisions. By like action new divisions may be created and existing divisions may be consolidated or abolished, and the administrative work of the Department assigned to the several divisions.

§ 22 Assistant Commissioners. The Commissioner of Education shall appoint, subject to the approval of the Regents, such Assistant Commissioners as he shall deem necessary for the proper organization and general classification of the work of the Department, and assign to such Assistant Commissioners the work which shall be under their respective supervision.

§ 23 Other officers and employees. The Commissioner of Education, subject to the approval of the Regents, shall have power, in conformity with their rules, to appoint all other needed officers and employees and fix their titles, duties and salaries.

§ 24 Removals and suspensions. With the approval of the Regents, the Commissioner of Education may, at his pleasure, remove from office any Assistant Commissioner, or other appointive officer or employee; and, when the Regents are not in session, the Commissioner may, during his pleasure, suspend, without salary, any such officer or employee, but not longer than till the adjournment of the succeeding meeting of the Regents.

§ 25 Joint seal. The Regents of the University and the Commissioner of Education shall together adopt, and may modify at any time, a seal, which shall be used in common as the seal of the Education Department and of the University; and copies of all records thereof and of all acts, orders, decrees and decisions made by the Regents or by the Commissioner of Education, and of their official papers, and of the drafts or machine copies of any of the foregoing, may be authenticated under the said seal and shall then be evidence equally with and in like manner as the originals.

§ 26 Reports to the Legislature. The Commissioner of Education shall annually prepare a report of the Education Department, including the University, which shall be transmitted to the Legislature over the signatures of the Chancellor of the University and of the Commissioner of Education. At their pleasure, the Regents or the Commissioner of Education may make other reports and communications to the Legislature. Such portions of their annual or other reports or communications as the Commissioner or the Regents shall desire for such use shall be printed by the state printer as bulletins.

§ 27 State Education Building After the completion of the State Education Building, it shall be occupied exclusively by the Education Department, including the University, with the State Library, the State Museum, and its other departments, together with such other work with which the Commissioner of Education and the Regents have official relations, as they may, in their discretion, provide for therein; and such building and the offices of such department shall be maintained at state expense.

ARTICLE 3

University of the State of New York

Section 40 Corporate name and objects

41 Regents

42 Officers

60 Provisional charters

61 Conditions of incorporation

62 Change of name or charter

63 Liquidation of affairs of educational Institutions

64 Dissolution of incorporated academy by stockholders

65 Suspension of operations

66 Prohibitions

67 Unlawful acts in respect to examinations and credentials

68 Powers of trustees of institutions

69 Colleges may construct water-works and sewer systems

70 State scholarships established

71 Scholarship fund of The University of the State of New York 72 Regents to make rules

73 List of candidates, award of scholarship

74 Issuance of scholarship certificate

Section 75 Effect of certificate; payments thereon

76 Revocation of scholarship

77 Limitation as to number of scholarships, courses of study

78 State scholarships for soldiers, sailors, marines and trained nurses 79 Licenses of schools; supervision

§ 40 Corporate name and objects. The corporation created in the year seventeen hundred and eighty-four under the name of the regents of the university of the state of New York, is hereby continued under the name of the university of the state of New York. Its objects shall be to encourage and promote education, to visit and inspect its several institutions and departments, to distribute to or expend or administer for them such property and funds as the state may appropriate therefor or as the university may own or hold in trust or otherwise, and to perform such other duties as may be intrusted to it. The said corporation shall have power to take, hold and administer real and personal property and the income thereof in trust for any educational, scientific, historical or other purpose within the jurisdiction of the regents of the university of the state of New York. [Amended by L. 1920, ch. 161, in effect April 10, 1920.]

§ 41 Regents. The University shall be governed and all its corporate powers exercised by a Board of Regents whose members shall at all times be three more than the then existing judicial districts of the State. The Regents now in office and those hereafter elected shall hold, in the order of their election, for such times that the term of one Regent will expire in each year on the first day of April, and his successor shall be chosen in the second week of the preceding February, on or before the fourteenth day of such month. A Regent shall be elected by the Legislature, on joint ballot of the two houses thereof.

All vacancies in such office, either for full or unexpired terms, shall be so filled that there shall always be in the membership of the Board of Regents at least one resident of each of the judicial districts. A vacancy in the office of Regent for other cause than expiration of term of service shall be filled for the unexpired term by an election at the session of the Legislature immediately following such vacancy, unless the Legislature is in session when such vacancy occurs, in which case the vacancy shall be filled by such Legislature. There shall be no "ex officio " members of the Board of Regents. No person shall be at the same time a Regent of the University and a trustee, president, principal or any other officer of an institution belonging to the University. [Amended by L. 1915, ch. 3.]

§ 42 Officers. The elective officers of the University shall be a Chancellor and a Vice-Chancellor who shall serve without salary, and such other officers as are deemed necessary by the Regents, all of whom shall be chosen by ballot by the Regents and shall hold office during their pleasure; but no election, removal or change of salary of an elective officer shall be made by less tha in favor thereof. Each Regent and each elective officer shall, berore entering on his duties, take and file with the Secretary of State the oath of office required of state officers.

The Chancellor shall preside at all convocations and at all meetings of the Regents, and confer all degrees which they shall authorize. In his absence or inability to act, the Vice-Chancellor, or if he be also absent, the senior Regent present, shall perform all the duties and have all the powers of the Chancellor.

§ 43 Meetings and absences. The Regents may provide for regular meetings, and the Chancellor, or the Commissioner of Education, or any five Regents, may at any time call a special meeting of the Board of Regents and fix the time and place therefor; and at least ten days' notice of every meeting shall be mailed to the usual address of each Regent. If any Regent shall fail to attend three consecutive meetings, without excuse accepted as satisfactory by the Regents, he may be deemed to have resigned and the Regents shall then report the vacancy to the Legislature, which shall fill it.

§ 44 Quorum. Seven Regents attending shall be a qucrum for the transaction of business.

§ 45 Authority to take testimony. The Regents, any committee thereof, the Commissioner of Education and any Assistant Commissioner of Education may take testimony or hear proofs relating to their official duties, or in any matter which they may lawfully investigate.

§ 46 Legislative power. Subject and in conformity to the constitution and laws of the State, the Regents shall exercise legislative functions concerning the educational system of the State, determine its educational policies, and except as to the judicial functions of the Commissioner of Education establish rules for carrying into effect the laws and policies of the State, relating to education, and the powers, duties and trusts conferred or charged upon the University. But no enactment of the Regents shall modify in any degree the freedom of the governing body of any seminary for the training of priests or clergymen to deter

mine and regulate the entire course of religious, doctrinal or theological instruction to be given in such institution. No rule by which more than a majority vote shall be required for any specified action by the Regents shall be amended, suspended or repealed by a smaller vote than that required for action thereunder. § 47 General examinations, credentials and degrees. The Regents may confer by diploma under the seal such honorary degrees as they may deem proper, and may estab lish examinations as to attainments in learning, and may award and confer suitable certificates, diplomas and degrees on persons who satisfactorily meet the requirements prescribed.

§ 48 Academic examinations. The Regents shall establish in the secondary institutions of the University, examinations in studies furnishing a suitable standard of graduation therefrom and of admission to colleges, and certificates or diplomas shall be conferred by the Regents on students who satisfactorily pass such examinations.

§ 49 Admission and fees. Any person shall be admitted to these examinations who shall conform to the rules and pay the fees prescribed by the Regents.

$50 Registrations. The Regents may register domestic and foreign institutions in terms of New York standards, and fix the value of degrees, diplomas and certificates issued by institutions of other states or countries and presented for entrance to schools, colleges and the professions in this State.

§ 51 Supervision of professions. Conformably to law the Regents may supervise the entrance regulations to and the licensing under and the practicing of the professions of medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, optometry and chirop ody, and also supervise the certification of nurses, public accountants, certified shorthand reporters, architects, and members of any other profession which may hereafter come under the supervision of the Board of Regents.

The Regents may by rule or order accept evidence of preliminary and professional education for licensing a candidate to practise any such profession in lieu of that prescribed by the laws relating to such profession; provided it shall appear to the satisfaction of the Regents that such candidate has substantially met the requirement of such laws.

And the Regents shall have further power to indorse a license issued by a legally constituted board of examiners in any other state