Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1910 [PAGE 97]

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1908]

PROCEEDINGS OE THE BOARD OE TRUSTEES.

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as to repairs and improvements. Upon the request of the president of the University he shall examine and report at any time upon any subject relating to said buildings or structures. No alteration shall be made in any of the buildings or other structures of the University or in the fixtures pertaining to the same without a written permit from the office of said supervising architect specifying exactly what may be done and the manner in which it shall be done. The said architect shall have the supervision of all alterations, reconstructions, and repairs to be made in the University buildings and other structures and no bill shall* be paid for work or materials used in such repairs until it has been submitted to said architect for his approval. Said architect shall be the superintendent for the University, of all buildings erected on the campus, unless some other person shall be specially selected for that work, and he shall be advisor to the president and board in all matters relating to the plans for the erection of buildings.

POLICING BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS. *

29. (a) Application shall be made by the president to the authorities of the cities of Urbana and Champaign for the appointment of the superintendents, and such members of their forces as may seem advisable, as special police officers, to the end that they may have power to arrest idlers, trespassers, marauders, disturbers of the peace, and any persons found on or about University property menacing the quiet and security of the University. When invested with such authority the superintendents and janitors shall be held accountable for good order about all buildings and grounds and for the safe keeping of all University property. (b) No advertising signs shall be allowed upon University* property, and no trespassing shall be allowed upon the lawns between the principal buildings of the University. All riders of bicycles shall be required to keep upon the roadways and never allowed upon the walks. No vehicles, loaded or otherwise, .shall be allowed to enter the carriage ways of the University unless the same are for light pleasure driving alone, or are on business connected with the University; and the superintendents of buildings and of grounds are authorized to put up suitable notices or to take any proper steps necessary to secure the complete enforcement of this order.

SURVEYS, C H A R T S , DRAINAGE, P L U M B I N G .

30. It is ordered that the superintendents of buildings and of grounds be made the custodians of all drawings, plats, charts, maps and surveys, and of pipe, drainage, plumbing and wire systems of the buildings and grounds of the University; that a room or rooms of sufficient size be set apart for their bestowal and preservation and for labor connected therewith; that all new drawings, maps, plats, etc., be made on mounted white paper of scale of convenient size; that old drawings, plats, etc., that are not now in a form or condition for preservation, be made new; that all changes, modifications, or extensions made in the buildings, plumbing, drainage, tunneling, water or gas piping, wiring, or other work, plats of which ought to be preserved, shall be carefully entered upon the old plats and drawings, and that such other records be made in book form as may be necessary and satisfactory; that the Committee on Buildings and Grounds have general supervision of the work herein contemplated and report from time to time to the board.

COLLEGE OF MEDICINE.

31. (a) The general statutes of the University shall apply to the College of Medicine, except in so far as special laws hereinafter provided may conflict therewith.