Private Acts of 1949 Chapter 183

SECTION 1. There is hereby created in Johnson County a county Board of Educational Commissioners to be composed of five (5) members.

SECTION 2. There shall be established three (3) educational districts composed of the following commissioner districts:

Commissioner Districts 1 shall constitute the First Educational District.

Commissioner Districts 2, 3, and 7 shall constitute the Second Educational District.

Commissioner Districts 4, 5, and 6 shall constitute the Third Educational District.

SECTION 3.

(a) At the August General Election, 2002, and each four (4) years thereafter, there shall be elected from each Educational Districts One and Three the following number of members of the County Board of Educational Commissioners:

Educational District One - one (1) member. Educational District Three - two (2) members. Educational District Three - one (1) member.

(b) At the August General Election, 2004, and each four (4) years thereafter, there shall be elected from Educational District Two the following number of members of the County Board of Educational Commissioners: Educational District Two - two (2) members.

(c) All members shall possess the qualifications, perform the duties, and their compensation shall be fixed in the manner now or hereafter prescribed by the general law.

SECTION 4. That the members of the Board of Education now in office in said Counties shall serve as the Board of Educational Commissioners until the first day of September, 2002, when they shall be succeeded by the Board elected as hereinabove provided.

SECTION 5. That any vacancy or vacancies which may occur on said Board between elections shall be filled by the Quarterly County Court of such Counties.

SECTION 6. That each of the members of said Board of Educational Commissioners shall, before entering upon their duties, take and subscribe to an oath for the faithful performance of their duties and shall execute a bond in the penal sum of One Thousand ($1,000.00) Dollars, payable to the State of Tennessee, conditioned for the faithful performance of their duties, with two or more sureties thereon.

SECTION 7. That if any section or part of this Act shall be held invalid it is hereby expressed as the legislative intent that the same may be elided and that the remainder of this Act shall remain in full force and effect.

SECTION 8. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed; and that this Act take effect from and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it.

Passed: February 15, 1949.