After the two or more colleges or institutions of higher education under the patronage of any benevolent, religious, or fraternal organization or society, having a grand lodge, assembly, conference, or other legislative or representative head in the state have become consolidated, the board of trustees of the new corporation may be reduced in number after it has transacted the business of the corporation for a period of five years after the consolidation.

(Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)