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New York State Department of State Certificates of Election of Members of the Board of Regents

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Administrative History

Article 5, Section 202 of the State Education Law provides that the University of the State of New York shall be governed and all its corporate powers exercised by a board of regents the number of whose members shall at all times be four more than the number of the then existing judicial districts of the state and shall not be less than fifteen. The law stipulates that each regent shall be elected for a term of five years, each such term to expire on the first day of April. Each regent shall be elected by the legislature by concurrent resolution in the preceding March, on or before the first Tuesday of such month. If, however, the legislature fails to agree on such concurrent resolution by the first Tuesday of such month, then the two houses shall meet in joint session at noon on the second Tuesday of such month and proceed to elect such regent by joint ballot.

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This series is comprised of certificates of election of members of the Board of Regents, as carried out according to provisions in Article 5, Section 202 of the State Education Law.

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