§18-5-7. Sale of School Property at Public Auction; Rights of Grantor of Lands in Rural Communities; Oil and Gas Leases; Disposition of Proceeds; Lease of School Property
(a) Except as set forth in subsection (b) of this section, if at any time a county board determines that any building or any land is no longer needed for school purposes, the county board may sell, dismantle, remove or relocate the building and sell the land on which it is located at public auction, […]
§18-5-3. Oath of Members
Every board member shall take the oath prescribed by section 5, article IV of the Constitution, before performing any of the duties of his office. The oath shall be filed with the secretary of the board.
§18-5-4. Meetings; Employment and Assignment of Teachers; Budget Hearing; Compensation of Members; Affiliation With State and National Associations
(a) The county board shall meet upon the dates provided by law, and at any other times the county board fixes upon its records. Subject to adequate public notice, nothing in this section prohibits the county board from conducting regular meetings in facilities within the county other than the county board office. At any meeting […]
§18-5-5. Corporate Character and General Powers of Board; Exemption of School Property From Legal Process and Taxes
The county board of education shall be a corporation by the name of "The Board of Education of the county of ……….," and as such may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with. It shall succeed and be subrogated to all the rights of former magisterial and independent district […]
§18-5-6. Validation of Titles to Land in Possession of Board
The county board shall have title to any land or school site which for five years has been in the undisputed possession of the county board or any Board of Education of a magisterial district, or subdistrict, or independent district, and to which title cannot be shown by any other claimant. Such land shall be […]
§18-5-1. Supervision and Control of County School Districts; Number, Nomination and Election of Members
Each county school district shall be under the supervision and control of a county board of education, which shall be composed of five members, nominated and elected by the voters of the respective county without reference to political party affiliation. No more than two members shall be elected from the same magisterial district.
§18-5-1a. Eligibility of Members; Training Requirements
(a) A person who is a member of a county board: (1) Shall be a citizen and resident in the county in which he or she serves on the county board. Also, a person who is a candidate for membership on a county board or who is a member-elect of a county board shall be […]
§18-5-1b. Election; Terms of Office
As the terms of county school board members who presently hold office expire, members shall be elected for four-year terms at the time of each regular primary election commencing with the year one thousand nine hundred ninety. The terms of such members shall begin on July 1, next following the primary election at which they […]
§18-5-1c. Organization of Board; Evaluation
(a) On the first Monday of July, following each biennial primary election, each respective county board shall organize and shall elect a president from its own membership for a two-year term. The county board shall report promptly to the state superintendent the name of the member elected as county board president. (b) Annually, each county […]
§18-5-2. Filling Vacancies
(a) The board shall, by appointment, fill within forty-five days any vacancy that occurs in its membership. In the event that the board does not fill the vacancy within forty-five days, the state Superintendent of Schools shall appoint a person to fill the vacancy. (b) (1) When the vacancy occurs after the eighty-fourth day before […]