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PUBLIC LAW 94-000—MMMM. DD, 1976

90 STAT. 290

Seal and corporation powers.

Income, use.

Discrimination, prohibition.

26 USC 501.

PUBLIC LAW 94-250—MAR. 29, 1976 to time, additional professorships; (g) appoint, from time to time, such deans, professors, tutors, and instructors as it may deem necessary, and fix their respective terms, duties, and salaries; and (h) grant and confer degrees, but only upon the recommendation of the appropriate school. SEC. 5. That the said corporation may have and use a common seal and alter and change the same at pleasure, and shall have power, in its corporate name, (a) to sue and be sued; (b) to plead and be impleaded; and (c) to acquire real, personal, and mixed property by grant, gift, purchase, bargain and sale, conveyance, will, devise, bequest, or otherwise to hold, use, and maintain the same solely for the purposes of education and to demise, let, mortgage, or otherwise lien, grant, sell, exchange, convey, transfer, place out at interest, or otherwise dispose of the same for its use in such manner as shall seem most beneficial thereto; subject to conforming to the express conditions of the donor of any gift, devise, or bequest with regard thereto accepted by it: Provided, That it shall not hold more land at any one time than necessary for the purpose of education, unless it shall have received the same by gift, grant, or devise, in which case it shall sell and dispose of so much of the same as may not be necessary for said purposes within fifteen years from the date of acquisition, otherwise the same shall revert to the donor or his heirs. SEC. 6. The income of said corporation from all sources whatsoever shall be held in the name of the corporation and supplied to the maintenance, endowment, promotion, and advancement of the said university, subject to conforming to the express conditions of the donor of any gift, devise, or bequest accepted by said corporation, with regard to the income therefrom. SEC. 7. That no person shall ever be required to profess any particular religious denomination, sentiment, or opinion as a condition to becoming and continuing a member of the faculty or a student, with the full benefits, privileges, and advantages thereof. SEC. 8. That no institution of learning hereafter incorporated in the District of Columbia shall use in or as its title, in whole or in part, the words "Southeastern University". SEC. 9. Upon dissolution of the corporation, the board of trustees shall, after paying or making provision for the payment of all of the liabilities of the corporation, dispose of all of the assets of the corporation exclusively for the purposes of the corporation in such manner, or to such organization or organizations organized and operated exclusively for educational purposes as shall at the time qualify as an exempt organization or organizations under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 or the corresponding provision of any future United States internal revenue law, as the board of trustees shall determine.