TITLE 16

Education

CHAPTER 16-59

Board of Governors for Higher Education [See Title 16 Chapter 97 –

The Rhode Island Board of Education Act]

SECTION 16-59-1



   § 16-59-1  Council on Postsecondary

Education established. –

(a) There is created a council on postsecondary education, sometimes referred

to as the "council", which shall be and is constituted a public corporation,

empowered to sue and be sued in its own name, and to exercise all the powers,

in addition to those specifically enumerated in this chapter, usually

appertaining to public corporations entrusted with control of postsecondary

educational institutions and functions. Upon its organization the council shall

be invested with the legal title (in trust for the state) to all property, real

and personal, now owned by and/or under the control or in custody of the board

of regents for education for the use of the University of Rhode Island, Rhode

Island College, Community College of Rhode Island and the system of community

colleges of Rhode Island including all departments, divisions, and branches of

these.



   (b) The council is empowered to hold and operate the property

in trust for the state; to acquire, hold, and dispose of the property and other

like property as deemed necessary for the execution of its corporate purposes.

The council is made successor to all powers, rights, duties, and privileges

formerly belonging to the board of regents for education pertaining to

postsecondary education and the board of governors for higher education.



   (c) The council shall be the employer of record for higher

education and the office of postsecondary education. It shall retain all

authority formerly vested in the board of education regarding the employment of

faculty and staff at the public higher education institutions.



   (d) The council shall be the governing body for the Rhode

Island division of higher education assistance and shall retain all authority

formerly vested in the higher education assistance authority board of directors

pursuant to § 16-57-7; however, any debts, liabilities, or obligations of

the council that result from its status as such governing body shall be payable

solely from the revenues or assets of reserve funds set forth and established

by the prior Rhode Island higher education assistance authority and/or the

Rhode Island division of higher education assistance created pursuant to

chapter 57 of this title, and not from any assets or property held by the

council on public higher education pursuant to this chapter.



   (e) The council on postsecondary education shall be the

employer of record for the division of higher education assistance.



History of Section.

(P.L. 1981, ch. 32, § 3; P.L. 1987, ch. 596, § 3; P.L. 1993, ch. 178,

§ 1; P.L. 1999, ch. 48, § 1; P.L. 1999, ch. 124, § 1; P.L. 2005,

ch. 117, art. 21, § 17; P.L. 2006, ch. 8, § 1; P.L. 2006, ch. 28,

§ 1; P.L. 2014, ch. 145, art. 20, § 5; P.L. 2015, ch. 141, art. 7,

§ 7.)