For the purpose of providing dormitories, living and dining halls, or cottages and equipment for the use of Western Colorado university, and to enable the construction, financing, and ultimate acquisition thereof, and to aid in improving undeveloped portions of the grounds of the Western Colorado university, the board of trustees is empowered to lease grounds under its control to private persons or corporations for a term not exceeding fifty years and subject to regulations as it may prescribe, and upon the condition that the private persons or corporations shall construct and equip on the leased grounds buildings or improvements as the board of trustees designates or approves and secure reimbursement for money invested therein from the rentals of the buildings or from their sale to the board of trustees acting for the state.Amended by 2019 Ch. 400, § 5, eff. 7/1/2019.L. 2003: Entire article R&RE, p. 787, § 6, effective July 1. L. 2012: Entire section amended, (HB 12-1331), ch. 1268, p. 1268, § 6, effective August 1. L. 2019: Entire section amended, (HB 19-1178), ch. 3543, p. 3543, § 5, effective July 1.This section is similar to former § 23-56-103 as it existed prior to 2003.