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PDF versionSECTION 1. The County Board of Education of Crockett County shall consist of seven (7) members with one (1) to be elected from each of the six school districts and one (1) to be elected from the county at- large. Members elected from school districts shall reside within and be qualified voters of the school district which they represent. The member elected at-large shall reside within in and be a qualified voter of Crockett County.
Beginning with the 1990 regular August election, and biennially thereafter as the terms of office of the members of the Board of Education expire, members of such board shall be elected for a term of office of four (4) years to begin on the first day of September next succeeding their election and until their successors shall be elected and qualified.
SECTION 2. Prior to January 31, 1990, the county legislative body of Crockett County shall meet and, a majority of the members being present, shall establish six (6) school districts of substantially equal populations and such districts shall be designated as school districts one (1) through six (6), respectively. Such districts may be established by using the districts of the county legislative body. If such school districts are not established by such date, then the vacancies on the county Board of Education to be filled in the 1990 regular August election shall be filled by candidates elected from the county at large.
Prior to January 1, 1992, and at least every ten (10) years thereafter, the county legislative body of Crockett County shall meet and , a majority of the members being present, shall change the boundaries of the school districts so that the members of the Board of Education represent substantially equal populations. The county legislative body must use the latest Federal Census data whenever a reapportionment of the school districts is made after January 1, 1992.
School districts shall be reasonably compact and contiguous and shall not overlap. In the establishment of boundaries for school districts, no precinct shall be split.
SECTION 3. The duties and compensation of the members shall be as provided by law.
SECTION 4. Nothing in this act shall be construed as having the effect of removing any incumbent from office or abridging the term of any official prior to the end of the term for which he was elected.
Until their successors are elected as hereafter provided, the following shall constitute and compose the Board of Education of Crockett County:
Jimmy Hargett whose term expired July 1, 1987; Bennie Parlow whose term expires July 1, 1989; Sam Cotten whose term expires July 1, 1990; Mack Goode whose term expires July 1, 1991; M.V. Williams whose term expires July 1, 1992; Richard Freeman whose term expires July 1, 1993; and Richard Matthews whose term expires July 1, 1995.
As the terms of the incumbent members expire, the county legislative body shall fill such vacancy until September 1 following the next regular August election. If a vacancy occurs in the office of any such incumbent member, such vacancy shall be filled only until September 1 following the next regular August election at which time such vacancy shall be filled pursuant to the provisions of this act.
Members of the Board of Education shall not be elected for school districts represented by the incumbent members until there is a vacancy in such school district.
At the 1990 regular August election, the office of such member whose term expires in 1989 shall be designated as the office to be elected from the county at-large. Any candidates for such office shall designate and be qualified to run for the member-at-large office. Members elected to serve in such office and the office of such member whose term expired in 1990 shall be elected for four (4) year terms. The office of such member whose term expired in 1987 and whose office has not been filled shall also be filled at the 1990 August election for a four (4) year term. Thereafter all terms shall be for four (4) years, as provided in Section 1.
SECTION 5. This act shall have no effect unless it is approved by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the legislative body of Crockett county. Its approval or nonapproval shall be proclaimed by the presiding officer of the legislative body and certified by him to the Secretary of State.
SECTION 6. For the purpose of approving or rejecting the provisions of this act, it shall be effective upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiting it. For all other purposes, it shall become effective upon being approved as provided in Section 5.
Passed: April 13, 1989.