Sec. 54.519.  STUDENT UNION FEE;  NORTH TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY.  (a)  The board of regents of North Texas State University  may levy a regular, fixed student fee against each student enrolled in that institution, as may in their discretion be just and necessary for the purpose of operating, maintaining, improving, and equipping the student union and acquiring or constructing additions thereto;  provided, however, that the student body must approve each increase of said fee in excess of $3 per student for each fiscal year, at an election called for that purpose by the board.  Notice of an election shall be given by publication of a substantial copy of the resolution or order of the board calling the election and showing the amount of the increased fee and the purpose for which it is to be used.  The notice shall be published in The North Texas Daily or in any other student newspaper having general circulation among the student body for three consecutive days of the week immediately preceding the date set for the election.  The board shall canvass the returns and declare the results of the election, and if a majority of the students voting in the election vote in favor of the increase, then the board may levy the fee in an amount not in excess of the amount authorized at the election.
(b)  The activities of the student union financed in whole or in part by the student union fee shall be limited to those activities in which the entire student body is eligible to participate and in no event may any of the activities so financed be held outside of the territorial limits of the campus of the University of North Texas.
(c)  The fiscal officer of the University of North Texas shall collect the fees provided for in Subsection (a) of this section and shall credit the money received from those fees to an account known as the student union fee account.
(d)  The money thus collected and placed in the student union fee account shall be used for the purpose of operating and maintaining and improving the student union and shall be placed under the control of and subject to the order of the board of directors of the student union, which board of directors shall annually submit a complete and itemized budget to be accompanied by a full and complete report of all activities conducted during the past year and all expenditures made incident thereto.  The board of regents shall make such changes in the budget as it deems necessary before approving it, and shall then levy the student fees under the provisions of Subsection (a) of this section in such amounts as will be sufficient to meet the budgetary needs of the student union, within the statutory limits fixed in this section.
Added by Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 3336, ch. 1024, art. 2, Sec. 3, eff. Sept. 1, 1971.  Amended by Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 790, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1985;  Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 1070, Sec. 9, eff. May 15, 1988.  Renumbered from Education Code Sec. 105.43 and amended by Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 901, Sec. 21, eff. Aug. 31, 1987.