The board may accept property donations for professorships, scholarships, or lawful educational or charitable trusts, and must file donation copies and report on the property and trust administration.
Sec. 65.36. DONATIONS FOR PROFESSORSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS. (a) Donations of property may be made and accepted by the board for the purpose of establishing or assisting in the establishment of a professorship or scholarship in the university system or any of its component institutions, or for creating in the university system or any of its component institutions any trust for any lawful, educational, or charitable purpose, either temporarily or permanently, and the donations or trusts thereby created will be governed by the rules prescribed by this section. (b) The legal title to the property shall be vested in the board acting as an entity, or the State of Texas, to be held in trust for the purpose under any directions, limitations, and provisions that may be declared in writing in the donation or trust agreement, not inconsistent with the objectives and proper management of the system or its component institutions. (c) The donor may declare and direct the manner in which the title to the property shall thereafter be transmitted from the trustee in continued succession, to be held for and appropriated to the declared purposes. (d) The donor may declare and direct the person or class of persons who shall receive the benefit of the donation and the manner of their selection. (e) The declarations, directions, and limitations shall not be inconsistent with the objects and proper management of the system or its institutions. (f) In case of failure to transmit the title to the property or to bestow its use in the manner declared and directed in the donation, or in case the uses, or either of them, become impracticable from the change of circumstances, the title to the property, unless otherwise expressly directed by the donor, shall vest in this state to be held in trust to carry into effect the purposes of the donation as nearly as practicable by such agencies as may be provided therefor. (g) The title to the property donated shall be received, and the trust conferred in the donation shall be assumed, subject to laws that may be passed and carried into effect from time to time which may be necessary to prevent the loss of, or damage to, the property donated, or an abuse or neglect of the trust so as to defeat, materially change, or prevent the objects of the donation. (h) Copies of the donation shall be filed with the board or the branch to which the donation applies; and the board shall report the condition and management of the property and the manner in which the trust is being administered as part of the matters reported pertaining to the institution. Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 3146, ch. 1024, art. 1, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1971. Amended by Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 1577, ch. 568, Sec. 1, eff. Aug. 27, 1973.