FIRST REGULAR SESSION

SENATE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR

SENATE BILL NO. 422

92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY

 Reported from the Committee on Education, March 6, 2003, with recommendation that the Senate Committee Substitute do pass.

TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.

1452S.02C

AN ACT

To repeal section 162.261, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to qualification for service on a seven-director or urban school board.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:

Section A. Section 162.261, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 162.261, to read as follows:

162.261. 1. The government and control of a seven-director school district, other than an urban district, is vested in a board of education of seven members, who hold their office for three years, except as provided in section 162.241, and until their successors are duly elected and qualified. Any vacancy occurring in the board shall be filled by the remaining members of the board; except that if there are more than two vacancies at any one time, the county commission upon receiving written notice of the vacancies shall fill the vacancies by appointment. The person appointed shall hold office until the next municipal election, when a director shall be elected for the unexpired term.

2. No person may run for, nor serve on, a seven-director or urban school district school board who is married to an employee of such school district.

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