(a) In order for the university to construct and issue securities for UConn 2000 and to otherwise carry out its responsibilities and requirements under sections 10a-109a to 10a-109y, inclusive, the university shall have the following powers, which powers shall be independent of and in addition to any other powers of the university under state law:

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(1) To have perpetual succession as a body politic and corporate and an instrumentality and agency of the state pursuant to section 10a-109v;

(2) To adopt and have an official seal and alter it at pleasure;

(3) To contract and be contracted with, sue, be indemnified, insure its assets, activities or actions or be a self-insurer and institute, prosecute, maintain and defend any action or proceeding in any court or before any agency or tribunal of competent jurisdiction;

(4) To indemnify and be sued, solely pursuant to subsection (a) of section 10a-109o;

(5) To retain by contract or employ architects, accountants, engineers, legal and securities counsel in accordance with the provisions of subparagraph (F) of subdivision (4) of subsection (e) of section 10a-109n, and other professional and technical consultants and advisers; provided the university shall continue to be subject to audit, including its operations under sections 10a-109a to 10a-109y, inclusive, pursuant to section 2-90, and provided further, financial advisers, underwriters, counsel, trustee, if any, and other financial consultants retained in connection with the offering and sale of securities shall be selected in consultation with the university, in the same manner as for state general obligation bonds;

(6) To plan, design, acquire, construct, build, enlarge, alter, reconstruct, renovate, improve, equip, own, operate, maintain, dispose of and demolish any project or projects, or any combination of projects, including without limitation any contract in furtherance of UConn 2000, notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (b) and (c) of section 10a-105 or any other provisions of the general statutes regarding the powers of the university to undertake capital projects and purchase personal property;

(7) To acquire by purchase, contract, lease, long-term lease or gift, and hold or dispose of, real or personal property or rights or interests in any such property and to hold, sell, assign, lease, rent, encumber, other than by mortgage, or otherwise dispose of any real or personal property, or any interest therein, owned by the university or in its control, custody or possession in accordance with section 10a-109n;

(8) To receive and accept grants, subsidies or loans of money from the federal government or a federal agency or instrumentality, the state or others, upon such terms and conditions as may be imposed, and to pledge the proceeds of grants, subsidies or loans of money received or to be received from the federal government or any federal agency or instrumentality, the state or others, pursuant to agreements entered into between the university and the federal government or any federal agency or instrumentality, the state or others, provided (A) such property shall be deemed property of the state for purposes of sections 4a-19 and 4a-20, and (B) the university may insure its property independent of the state;

(9) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 10a-150, to receive and accept aid or contributions, from any source, of money, property, labor or other things of value, to be held, used and applied to carry out the purposes of sections 10a-109a to 10a-109y, inclusive, subject to the conditions upon which such aid or contributions may be made, including, but not limited to, gifts or grants from any department or agency of the United States or the state for any purpose consistent with said sections;

(10) To borrow money and issue securities to finance the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, improvement or equipping of any one project, or more than one, or any combination of projects, or to refund securities issued after June 7, 1995, or to refund any such refunding securities or for any one, or more than one, or all of those purposes, or any combination of those purposes, and to provide for the security and payment of those securities and for the rights of the holders of them, except that the amount of any such borrowing, the special debt service requirements for which are secured by the state debt service commitment, exclusive of the amount of borrowing to refund securities, or to fund issuance costs or necessary reserves, may not exceed the aggregate principal amount of (A) for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1996, to June 30, 2005, inclusive, one billion thirty million dollars, (B) for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2006, to June 30, 2027, inclusive, three billion two hundred eighty-three million nine hundred thousand dollars, and (C) such additional amount or amounts: (i) Required from time to time to fund any special capital reserve fund or other debt service reserve fund in accordance with the financing transaction proceedings, and (ii) to pay or provide for the costs of issuance and capitalized interest, if any; the aggregate amounts of subparagraphs (A), (B) and (C) of this subdivision are established as the authorized funding amount, and no borrowing within the authorized funding amount for a project or projects may be effected unless the project or projects are included in accordance with subsection (a) of section 10a-109e;

(11) To make, enter into, execute, deliver and amend any and all contracts, including, but not limited to, total cost basis contracts, agreements, leases, instruments and documents and perform all acts and do all things necessary or convenient to plan, design, acquire, construct, build, enlarge, alter, reconstruct, renovate, improve, equip, finance, maintain and operate projects and to carry out the powers granted by sections 10a-109a to 10a-109y, inclusive, or reasonably implied from those powers;

(12) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes to the contrary, including without limitation subsection (a) of section 10a-105, to fix and collect fees, tuition, charges, rentals and other charges for enrollment and attendance at the university and for the use of projects or any part thereof, provided that no tuition or student fee revenue shall be used for repairs performed solely to correct code violations that were applicable at the time of project completion and were for named projects pursuant to section 10a-109e completed prior to January 1, 2007; to provide for the promulgation of such reasonable and proper policies and procedures as may be necessary to assure the maximum use of the facilities of any projects at all times; and

(13) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (b) of section 10a-105, to provide for or confirm the establishment of various funds and accounts respecting university operations, bond proceeds and special debt service requirements for securities issued, renewal and replacement and insurance, special capital reserve and operating reserve, special external gifts, pending receipts, assured revenues, project revenues to the extent not otherwise pledged and securing outstanding general obligation bonds of the state or other revenues and other funds or accounts as may be more particularly required under this subdivision and the indentures of trust or resolutions authorizing securities and to provide, subject to section 10a-109q and the provisions of such indentures or resolutions for the following to be deposited therein, as follows:

(A) All proceeds received from the sale of all securities;

(B) All fees, tuition, rentals and other charges from students, faculty, staff members and others using or being served by, or having the right to use or the right to be served by the university or any project;

(C) All fees for student activities, student services and all other fees, tuition and charges collected from students matriculated, registered or otherwise enrolled at and attending the university, pledged under the terms of financing transaction proceedings;

(D) All rentals from any facility or building leased to the federal government or any other third party;

(E) Federal and state grants, gifts, state appropriations and special external gift funds;

(F) All other assured revenues; and

(G) Project revenues.

(b) Any and all powers granted to the university in subdivision (a) of this section may be exercised by majority vote of the board of trustees which, except as specifically required under sections 10a-109e and 10a-109f, by majority vote of the board of trustees, subject to retaining overall control, responsibility and supervision, may be delegated to the finance committee or any officer, official or trustee of the finance committee or other authorized officer or employee of the university.