Section 16-3-35
Contracts with Tuskegee Institute and Meharry Medical College for education of Alabama students.
(a) The State Board of Education is hereby authorized to contract with the Tuskegee Institute for educational services for Alabama students including the following:
(1) Veterinary medicine;
(2) Engineering;
(3) Vocational agriculture;
(4) Vocational home economics;
(5) Chemistry;
(6) Nursing education; and
(7) Such other educational services which in the opinion of the board of education are in great enough demand to justify a contract.
(b) The state board is authorized to allocate to Tuskegee Institute any appropriation or any part of any appropriation to the State Board of Education for Tuskegee Institute.
(c) The State Board of Education is hereby authorized to contract with Meharry Medical College or the Board of Control for Southern Regional Education for medical and dental education of Alabama students in said college out of any appropriation that may be made available to the State Board of Education for regional education.
(d) It is the full intent of this section to appropriate tax money through the State Board of Education for the education of resident citizens of Alabama in each and every institution of higher learning to which or for which the State Board of Education may allocate any appropriations made to said board for regional education or for any specific institution.
(Acts 1949, No. 489, p. 710, §§ 1-3.)