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PDF versionSECTION 1. Chapter 66 of the Private Acts of 1951 is hereby repealed in its entirety.
SECTION 2. The members constituting the Chester County Board of Education on the effective date of this act shall remain as the legally constituted Board of Education for Chester County and each member of said Board shall hold office until his or her particular term of office expires.
SECTION 3. Chester County, Tennessee is hereby divided into six (6) school districts which shall have boundaries identical to the boundaries of the county commissioner districts in said county so long as Chester County has six (6) county commissioner districts. In the event Chester County has county commissioner districts established according to law in some number other than six, then the Board of County Commissioners shall by resolution establish the boundaries of the six school districts of Chester County.
SECTION 4. One member of the Chester County Board of Education shall be elected from each of the six school districts established by this Act.
One member of said Board shall be elected at large by the voters of Chester County.
In the August 1982 General Election and every four (4) years thereafter, the voters in school districts 1 and 6 shall elect members to serve on the Chester County Board of Education.
In the August 1984 General Election and every four (4) years thereafter, the voters of school districts 2, 3, 4, and 5 shall elect members to serve on the Chester County Board of Education.
In the August 1984 General Election and every four (4) year thereafter, the voters of Chester County shall elect a member at large to serve on the Chester County Board of Education.
Each member of the Board of Education elected pursuant to this act shall reside in the district he or she represents.
SECTION 5. Members elected in the August 1982 General Election or subsequent general elections shall hold office for a term of four (4) years commencing September 1 of the year of their election and until their successors are elected and qualified.
SECTION 6. The Chester County Election Commission shall certify the election of each member to the Chester County Board of Education in the same manner as other county officers are certified.
SECTION 7. The individuals elected pursuant to this act shall meet on September 1 of the year of their election or as soon thereafter as is practicable and shall take an oath of office administered by someone empowered to administer such oaths.
SECTION 8. The compensation, powers, duties and liabilities of members of the Chester County Board of Education shall be as prescribed by general law.
SECTION 9. If any provision of this Act or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the Act which can be given effect without the invalid provisions or application, and to that end the provisions of this Act are declared to be severable.
SECTION 10. This Act shall have no effect unless it is approved by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the Board of County Commissioners of Chester County. Its approval or nonapproval shall be proclaimed by the presiding officer of the Board of County Commissioners and certified by him to the Secretary of State.
SECTION 11. For the purpose of approving or rejecting this Act, it shall become effective upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it. For all other purposes, it shall become effective upon being approved as provided in Section 10.
Passed: March 11, 1982.