KRS 164.100: University of Kentucky recognized.

The University of Kentucky located at Lexington, is recognized as established and

maintained. It is the institution that was founded under the land grant of 1862 by the

Congress of the United States under the corporate designation and title of "Agricultura l

and Mechanical College of Kentucky." The university shall be maintained by the state

with such endowments, incomes, buildings and equipment as will enable it to do work

such as is done in other institutions of corresponding rank, both undergraduate and

postgraduate, and embracing the work of instruction as well as research.