Mississippi Administrative Code
Title 8 - Education - Institutions of Higher Learning
Part 3 - Bylaws
Chapter 1
Section 8-3-1-301.01 - OFFICERS OF THE BOARD

A. PRESIDENT:

There shall be a president elected by the Board from its membership. It is expected that each member of a class of Trustees shall be elected to serve as President, unless a Trustee elects not to serve. A class of Trustees shall consist of those Trustees who take office on the same date, or those whose terms as trustees end on the same date. Each member of the class of Trustees that took office as of May 2004 shall serve eleven months as president, unless he/she elects not to serve. The first Trustee elected as President from the class of Trustees that took office in 2004 shall begin his/her presidential term on May 1, 2011. Each member of the class of Trustees that took office as of May 2008 shall serve ten months as president, unless he/she elects not to serve. Each member of the class of Trustees that shall take office as of May 2012, as well as the members of all subsequent classes, shall serve nine months as president, unless he/she elects not to serve. If a member of a class of Trustees elects not to serve, another member of the class may serve more than one term, if elected. The president of the Board shall preside at all meetings of the Board; he or she shall be an ex officio member of all standing and special committees; he or she shall, with the Commissioner, execute such instruments and contracts as may be ordered by the Board; he or she shall perform such duties as usually pertain to this office and such other duties as may be assigned by the Board; and he or she shall be governed in his action by the usual parliamentary procedure. When the presiding officer has voted and the result is a tie, he cannot vote again to break the tie. The president of the Board may not immediately succeed himself/herself as president after having served a full term.

Miss. Code Ann., § 37-101-7, as amended.

(BT Minutes, 9/90; 1/98; 3/2011)

B. VICE PRESIDENT:

There shall be a vice president elected by the Board from its membership. A vice president shall serve until completion of the term of the president that the vice president will succeed. The vice president shall preside at meetings of the Board in the absence or disability of the president.

The vice president of the Board shall automatically succeed to the office of president after having served a term as vice president.

The vice president shall become president upon the resignation, removal, death or incapacity of the president.