Session Laws

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

SECTION 1. The first paragraph of section 9 of chapter 15A of the General Laws, as most recently amended by section 2 of chapter 472 of the acts of 1987, is hereby further amended by striking out the first sentence and inserting in place thereof the following eight sentences:- There shall be a board of trustees consisting of eleven members for each of the institutions named in section three other than the University of Massachusetts. One member of such board of trustees shall be a full-time undergraduate student member from said institution, and ten members shall be appointed by the governor, one of whom shall be an alumnus of said institution and one of whom shall be elected thereto by the alumni association of said institution. There shall be a board of trustees for the University of Massachusetts consisting of nineteen members. Two members of the University of Massachusetts board of trustees shall be full-time undergraduate students, one of whom is from the Amherst campus and one of who is from the Boston campus; one member shall be a full-time student from the Medical School; and sixteen members shall be appointed by the governor, four of whom shall be alumni of said institution elected thereto by the membership of the alumni associations of the campuses of said institution. Of the alumni elected to the University of Massachusetts board of trustees, two shall be elected by the membership of the alumni association of the Amherst campus, one shall be elected by the membership of the alumni association of the Boston campus, and one shall be elected by the membership of the alumni association of the Worcester campus. Each elected alumnus member shall be elected every five years. No elected alumnus member shall serve for more than two consecutive terms. A vacancy in the position of elected alumnus member prior to the expiration of a term shall be filled for the remainder of the term in the same manner as elections to full terms.

SECTION 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of section one of this act, the alumni members of the University of Massachusetts board of trustees initially elected as provided herein shall be appointed effective March first, nineteen hundred and eighty-eight.

SECTION 3. Notwithstanding the provisions of section two of this act, the three additional members of the University of Massachusetts board of trustees initially elected as provided herein shall be appointed effective March first, nineteen hundred and eighty-eight for a five year term. Said members shall be elected respectively by the membership of the alumni associations of the Amherst, Boston, and Worcester campuses of said institution.