§ 13-49-20-2

13-49-20.2. Contracts to reserve spaces for South Dakota optometric students.The State Board of Regents may negotiate and enter into contractual agreements with public or private colleges and universities offering the study of optometry for the purpose of reserving spaces each year for optometric students from South Dakota. Such contractual agreements may include a provision that the Board of Regents pay a specific reservation fee for each student that is accepted for admittance, and sponsored by the Board of Regents, to the study of optometry. The Board of Regents may pay a minimum reservation fee each year of the contract as a guarantee sum in the event that fewer than the stipulated number of students from South Dakota are accepted into the study of optometry. Source: SL 1978, ch 124, §1.