Private Acts of 1993 Chapter 15

SECTION 1.  Chapter 323 of the Private Acts of 1927, Chapter 292 of the Private Acts of 1943, Chapter 228 of the Private Acts of 1949, as amended by Chapter 191 of the Private Acts of 1957, Chapter 293 of the Private Acts of 1978, Chapter 102 of the Private Acts of 1987, and all other acts amendatory thereto, are hereby repealed.  Chapter 348 of the Private Acts of 1955, Chapter 183 of the Private Acts of 1959 and Chapter 309 of the Private Acts of 1961, all three of which failed to gain local approval, are repealed.

SECTION 2.  Campbell County shall be divided into five (5) school districts which shall be coextensive with the county commissioner districts established by the County Legislative Body of Campbell County.  The Campbell County Board of Education shall consist of ten (10) members, with two (2) members being elected by the qualified voters in each school district.  Board members shall be elected to staggered four (4) year terms so that every two (2) years the term of one (1) board member from each school district shall expire.  Persons elected in the regular August elections shall take office on September 1 following the election.

SECTION 3.  To accomplish the transition between the former five (5) member board to the new ten (10) member board, the board members in office on the effective date of this act shall continue to serve until the expiration of their respective terms, and the seats they occupy shall be designated seat “A” for their respective school districts.  At the August 2000 election, one (1) new board member will be elected to fill seat “B” in each district for the following initial terms:

Thereafter, all board members shall be elected to four (4) year terms.

SECTION 4.  To accomplish the transition between the former seven (7) school districts to the present five (5) school districts following the 1990 census, the provisions of Section 3 of this act shall be followed so that the board members in office on the effective date of this act shall continue to serve until the expiration of their respective terms.  At the august, 1992 election, board members from the new even-numbered districts shall be elected to four (4) year terms.  At the August, 1994 election, board members from the new odd-numbered districts shall be elected to four (4) year terms.  Any action taken to implement the provisions of this act are hereby ratified and validated as though such action had occurred after the ratification of this act.

SECTION 5.  Except as otherwise provided herein, the Campbell County board of education shall have the same powers, duties, privileges and qualifications as the board of education established pursuant to Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49.

SECTION 6.  If any provision of this act or the application thereof to any person or circumstance in held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the act which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to that end the provisions of this act are declared to be severable.

SECTION 7.  This act shall have no effect unless it is approved by a two-thirds (⅔) vote of the board of county commissioners of Campbell County.  Its approval or nonapproval shall be proclaimed by the presiding officer of the board of county commissioners of Campbell County and certified to the Secretary of State.

SECTION 8.  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 7.

PASSED: February 18, 1993.