The Board is hereby authorized and empowered, in its discretion, to adopt and have an official seal in such form as it deems appropriate for its official use. The official seal of the Board shall contain an inner circle and an outer circle. The inner circle shall be a facsimile of the inner circle of the Great Seal of the State of Mississippi. It portrays the great eagle with extended pinions, holding in the right talon a palm branch and a bundle of arrows in the left talon, meaning "by valor and arms." The outer circle shall have inscribed therein the words "State Institutions of Higher Learning."
Miss. Code Ann., § 37-101-11, as amended.
8 Miss. Code. R. § 1-1-101.03