B Y L A W S
OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA
PREAMBLE
The Legislature of the State of Alabama has vested full management and control over the University of South Alabama in a Board of Trustees pursuant to Act No. 157, Acts of Alabama, 1963, Secondary Extraordinary Session; the Legislature has stated: “The Governor and the State Superintendent of Education. By virtue of their respective offices, the Trustees appointed from the senatorial districts of the state, enumerated in Section 2 of the subject Act, are constituted a public body corporate, under the name of the University of South Alabama to carry into effect the purposes expressed in the subject Act and to establish a state institution of higher education.” (Code of Alabama, 1975, Section 16-55-1). For the purpose of providing a definitive and orderly form of governance, and in order to continue to carry out the purposes required of the Board of Trustees of the University of South Alabama, in the establishment and continuation of a state institution of higher learning, the Board of Trustees hereby does promulgate and adopt these Bylaws.
9th Edition, December 10, 2009
