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PDF versionSECTION 1. Private Acts of 1933, Chapter 147, and Private Acts of 1951, Chapter 62 are repealed.
SECTION 2. There are hereby created nine (9) educational districts for Marshall County, which shall be the same as the nine (9) county commission districts as Marshall County may now be constituted or may hereafter be constituted. Such educational districts shall be numbered the same as the county commission districts. Each educational district shall be entitled to one (1) member on the Board of Education as set out hereinafter.
SECTION 3. There is hereby created the Board of Education of Marshall County to be composed of nine (9) members to be elected by the qualified voters of each educational district of said county. Board members must reside in the educational district which they represent and possess the qualifications provided by law. Each member of the Board of Education shall hold office for a period of six (6) years from September 1, next following his or her election at the August General Election and until his or her successor shall be elected and qualified; however, current Board members presently holding office shall automatically continue in office for the term in which they were elected or appointed.
SECTION 4. That until their successors are elected and duly qualified, the following shall constitute and compose the Board of Education of said County:
Max Allen Jordan, for the First Educational District.
John W. Turner, for the Second Educational District.
Bill Gold, for the Third Educational District.
Cornell M. King, for the Fourth Educational District.
Claude McMillion, for the Fifth Educational District.
Charles Cheatham, for the Sixth Educational District.
Robert Webb, for the Seventh Educational District.
Ed Daughrity, for the Eighth Educational District.
Fred Stacey, for the Ninth Educational District.
In the August General Election in 1982, a Board member shall be elected for a six (6) year term from each of Districts 2, 5 and 8. In the August General Election in 1984, a Board member shall be elected for a six (6) year term from each of Districts 1, 4 and 7. In the August General Election in 1986, a Board member shall be elected for six (6) year term from each of Districts 3, 6 and 9. Successors elected thereafter shall be elected for six (6) year terms.
SECTION 5. Vacancies on the Board of Education shall be filled in the manner prescribed by law. Any Board member that is currently holding office, or hereafter holding office, that was appointed to such Board of Education because of a vacancy on said Board, shall serve until the next General Election in August, at which time an election will be held for the unexpired portion of the term of the vacated member.
SECTION 6. The Board of Education shall have all the rights, powers, liabilities, duties and compensation as are provided for County Boards of Education under Title 49 of Tennessee Code Annotated or as otherwise provided by law.
SECTION 7. Nothing in this Act shall be construed as having the effect of removing an incumbent from office or abridging the term of any official prior to the end of the term for which he or she was elected or appointed.
SECTION 8. 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 and applications of the Act, which can be effective without the invalid provisions or applications, and to that end the provisions of this Act are declared to be severable.
SECTION 9. This act shall have no effect unless the same shall be approved by a twothirds (2/3rds) vote of the county legislative body of Marshall County at or before its next regularly scheduled meeting following the approval of this Act by the Governor. Its approval or non-approval shall be proclaimed by the presiding officer of the county legislative body of Marshall County and certified by him to the Secretary of State.
SECTION 10. For the purpose of approving or rejecting the provisions of this act, it shall be 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 18, 1982.