Section 21-11-6 - [Powers and duties of president of board of regents; president pro tem.]

NM Stat § 21-11-6 (2019) (N/A)
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The president of said board shall be the chief executive officer, shall preside at all meetings thereof, except that when he is absent the board may appoint a president pro tem, sign all instruments required to be executed by said board; he shall also direct the affairs generally of the said school of mines [New Mexico institute of mining and technology], shall nominate and, by and with the advice of said board of regents, appoint all professors, instructors, tutors and other employes [employees] necessary to the proper conduct of said school of mines [institute], and in like manner shall determine the amount of their respective salaries.

History: Laws 1889, ch. 138, § 31; C.L. 1897, § 3596; Code 1915, § 5142; C.S. 1929, § 130-1104; 1941 Comp., § 55-2604; 1953 Comp., § 73-27-6.

Bracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.

N.M. Const., art. XII, § 11, as repealed and reenacted November 8, 1960, changed the name of the New Mexico school of mines to the New Mexico institute of mining and technology. See 21-11-2 NMSA 1978.

Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 15A Am. Jur. 2d Colleges and Universities § 5.

14A C.J.S. Colleges and Universities §§ 14, 15, 19, 25.