Editor's notes.

- In light of the similarity of the statutory provisions, decisions under former Code 1910, § 1398(2), which was subsequently repealed but was succeeded by provisions in this Code section, are included in the annotations for this Code section.

Regents of the University System of Georgia is a distinct corporate entity, though controlled by a board of regents. State v. Regents of Univ. Sys., 179 Ga. 210, 175 S.E. 567 (1934).

Power to make rules for State Normal School has not been abrogated or changed by any subsequent act of the legislature. Davison-Nicholson Co. v. Pound, 147 Ga. 447, 94 S.E. 560 (1917) (decided under former Code 1910, § 1398(2)).

If good faith discretion, no liability to one with whom students forbidden to deal.

- Wide discretion is necessarily vested in the governing board to determine the conditions on which persons may deal with the institution or student body, and if this discretion is exercised in good faith, there will, in general, according to respectable authority, be no liability to one with whom the students have been forbidden to deal. Davison-Nicholson Co. v. Pound, 147 Ga. 447, 94 S.E. 560 (1917) (decided under former Code 1910, § 1398(2)).

Cited in Williams v. McIntosh County, 179 Ga. 735, 177 S.E. 248 (1934); Marshall v. Georgia S.W. College, 489 F. Supp. 1322 (M.D. Ga. 1980); Columbus College v. Shore, 707 F.2d 1337 (11th Cir. 1983).

University boards and directors abolished and regents established in their place.

- It was not the intent of the General Assembly to repeal any of the laws creating the institutions comprising the University of Georgia or its branches; the effect of this statute was merely to abolish the boards of trustees or directors of these institutions and establish in the board's place the Regents of the University System of Georgia. 1970 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 70-173.

Former Code 1933, § 32-911, strictly construed, applied only to county boards of education and should not be extended by construction or implication so as to repeal or amend the constitutional and statutory provisions applicable to the powers of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia to make rules and regulations with respect to entrance requirements for any of the university's institutions, including admission requirements concerning physical examinations, vaccination against smallpox, and immunization against tetanus and poliomyelitis. 1960-61 Op. Att'y Gen. p. 571 (rendered under former Code 1933, § 32-911, prior to revision by Ga. L. 1981, p. 756, § 1).

Board of regents may promulgate such rules regulating students' off-campus housing as are reasonably necessary to the government, control, and management of the institution and its purpose of providing an education to the students; if the board finds it necessary that students living in off-campus facilities remain in such facilities for a specific period of time, it would be in order to promulgate a rule to that effect. 1967 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 67-59.

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 15A Am. Jur. 2d, Colleges and Universities, §§ 4, 9, 12 et seq.

C.J.S.

- 14A C.J.S., Colleges and Universities, § 12 et seq.