Sec. 54.518. UNIVERSITY CENTER FEE; MIDWESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY. (a) To the extent approved by the students under Subsection (b), the Board of Regents of Midwestern State University is hereby authorized to levy a regular, fixed student fee not to exceed, except as authorized under Subsection (d), $15 per student for each semester of the long session and not to exceed $7.50 per student for all or part of each term of the summer session for the purpose of operating, maintaining, improving, equipping, and financing the university center and acquiring or constructing additions to the center. The amount of the fee may be changed at any time within the limits specified by this subsection in order to provide sufficient funds to support the university center. The fees authorized in this section supplement any other use or service fee authorized by law.

(b) The decision to levy such a fee, the amount of the initial fee, and any increase in the fee within the limits specified by Subsection (a) must be approved by a majority vote of those students participating in a general election called for that purpose.

(c) The chief fiscal officer of the university shall collect the fees provided for in this section and shall credit the money received from the fees to an account known as the University Center Administration and Program Fund.

(d) The board may increase the amount of the fee for a semester or summer session in excess of the applicable amount provided by Subsection (a) if the increase is approved by a majority vote of those students participating in a general election called for that purpose. The increased amount under this subsection may not be charged after the fifth academic year in which the increased amount is first charged unless, before the end of that academic year, the institution has issued bonds payable from the fee, in which event the increased amount may not be charged after the academic year in which all such bonds, including refunding bonds for those bonds, have been fully paid.

Added by Acts 1979, 66th Leg., p. 793, ch. 354, Sec. 1, eff. June 6, 1979. Renumbered from Education Code Sec. 103.11 and amended by Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 901, Sec. 20, eff. Aug. 31, 1987.

Amended by:

Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 200 (S.B. 1121), Sec. 1, eff. May 28, 2011.