Tex. Education Code § 54.510
This is the official text of Tex. Education Code § 54.510, part of Texas’s Education Code — governs public schools and universities in Texas.
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§ 54.510. STUDENT RECREATIONAL SPORTS FEE; THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN.
Official statutory text
(a) The board of regents of The University of Texas System may charge each student enrolled in The University of Texas at Austin a recreational sports fee not to exceed $20 a semester or 12-week summer session or $10 a six-week summer session. The fee may be used only for financing, constructing, operating, maintaining, and improving recreational sports facilities and programs at the university.
(b) A fee may not be imposed under this section until the semester in which a campus recreational sports facility will be available for use.
(c) The university shall collect any student recreational sports fee imposed under this section and shall deposit the money collected in an account to be known as the student recreational sports account. A recreational sports fee may not be collected after the 20th anniversary of the date it is first collected, or after all bonded indebtedness for any campus recreational sports facility for which the fee receipts are pledged is paid, whichever is later.
(d) A student recreational sports fee imposed under this section is not counted in determining the maximum student services fee which may be charged under Section 54.513 of this subchapter.
(b) A fee may not be imposed under this section until the semester in which a campus recreational sports facility will be available for use.
(c) The university shall collect any student recreational sports fee imposed under this section and shall deposit the money collected in an account to be known as the student recreational sports account. A recreational sports fee may not be collected after the 20th anniversary of the date it is first collected, or after all bonded indebtedness for any campus recreational sports facility for which the fee receipts are pledged is paid, whichever is later.
(d) A student recreational sports fee imposed under this section is not counted in determining the maximum student services fee which may be charged under Section 54.513 of this subchapter.
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